Section 18.01. Definitions.

  In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1)  "Elected official" means a constitutional officer or other elected official under s. 20.923 (2) , Stats.

(2)  "Employee" means any person who receives remuneration for services rendered to the state under an employer-employee relationship in the classified or unclassified civil service except:

(a) Elected officials;

(b) Unclassified staff of the University of Wisconsin System not identified under s. 20.923 (4) , Stats.;

(c) Unclassified staff of the legislature not identified under s. 20.923 (4) , Stats.;

(d) Unclassified staff of a legislative service agency under subch. IV of ch. 13 , Stats.;

(e) One stenographer employed by each elective constitutional officer under s. 230.08 (2) (g) , Stats.; and

(f) Staff of the state court system.

(3)  "Employment status" means the status of a person in the civil service under s. 230.08 , Stats., while in pay status or on:

(a) Approved leave of absence without pay;

(b) Military leave;

(c) Leave to serve in the unclassified service;

(d) Leave of absence due to injury or illness arising out of state employment and covered by worker's compensation under ch. 102 , Stats. , or s. 230.36 , Stats.;

(e) Temporary layoff; or

(f) Layoff and subsequent restoration from layoff under s. ER-MRS 22.10 within 3 years.

(4)  "Immediate family" means:

(a) Parents, step-parents, grandparents, foster parents, children, step-children, grandchildren, foster children, brothers and their spouses, sisters and their spouses, of the employee or spouse;

(b) The spouse;

(c) Aunts and uncles, sons-in-law or daughters-in-law of the employee or spouse; and

(d) Other relatives of the employee or spouse providing they reside in the same household of the employee.

(4m)  "Layoff" means the termination of the services of an employee with permanent status in class from a position in a group in which a reduction in force is to be accomplished and which results in a mandatory reemployment right of the affected employee to future positions.

(5)  Except as provided in s. ER 18.15 , "leave credits" mean earned but unused annual leave, termination leave, sabbatical leave, sick leave, personal and legal holiday time, and holiday compensatory time off. "Leave credits" does not include compensatory time off credits earned for working overtime.

(6)  "Limited term employee" means a person who is an employee as a result of either:

(a) Employment in the classified service in which the nature and conditions do not permit attainment of permanent status in class, for which the use of normal procedures for recruitment and examination are not practicable, and which is not project employment; or

(b) Employment in the unclassified service in which the employee would have been considered a limited term employee, had employment been in the classified service.

(7)  "Sabbatical leave" means annual leave which was deferred during the year earned to be used in a subsequent year to extend the annual leave, unless used for termination leave.

(8)  "Termination leave" means annual leave which was deferred during the year earned to be used in a subsequent year to extend an employee's termination date or for payment in a lump sum upon termination.