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The employer's salary determination policy must minimally address the following:
(1) Setting base salary for new employees;
(2) Adjusting timing and/or amount of regularly scheduled increment increases in accordance with WAC 357-28-070;
(3) Adjusting base salary to address issues related to recruitment, retention, or other business-related reasons in accordance with WAC 357-28-090;
(4) Increasing base salary in accordance with WAC 357-28-110 when an employee is promoted to a position in a new class;
(5) Increasing base salary in accordance with WAC 357-28-110 when an employee is promoted to a permanent position while in a nonpermanent appointment;
(6) Setting base salary in accordance with WAC 357-28-140 when an employee transfers to a new position;
(7) Setting base salary in accordance with WAC 357-28-135 when an employee is appointed from an internal or statewide layoff list to a position with a lower range maximum than the position from which the employee was laid off;
(8) Setting base salary higher than step M in accordance with WAC 357-28-120 for an employee occupying a position that is reallocated to a class with the same or lower salary range;
(9) Setting base salary in accordance with WAC 357-28-155 when an employee is demoted for any other reason than accepting a demotion in lieu of layoff or the demotion is a result of reasonable accommodation;
(10) Setting base salary in accordance with WAC 357-28-150 when an employee is reverted following a voluntary demotion;
(11) Authorizing additional pay to support recruitment and/or retention for a specific position in accordance with WAC 357-28-095;
(12) Setting base salary and progression based on recruitment and retention rather than years of experience for the nurse special pay salary schedules, if applicable;
(13) Compensation for employees being called back to work in accordance with WAC 357-28-185;
(14) When an employee must receive shift premium in accordance with WAC 357-28-190;
(15) When an employee must receive holiday premium in accordance with WAC 357-28-200;
(16) When an employee must receive standby pay in accordance with WAC 357-28-205;
(17) Informing employees who are dispatched to emergency response duty under an incident command system of any temporary eligibility to receive overtime compensation in accordance with WAC 357-28-250;
(18) When an employee must receive overtime compensation in accordance with WAC 357-28-255;
(19) Setting base salary in accordance with WAC 357-19-340 when an employee returns to a permanent position from a project position;
(20) Setting base salary in accordance with WAC 357-19-353 when a WGS employee returns to a permanent position from an acting WMS appointment; and
(21) Setting base salary in accordance with WAC 357-19-395 when an employee returns to a permanent position from a nonpermanent appointment.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 41.06.133. WSR 26-18-047, s 357-28-035, filed 8/28/26, effective 10/1/26; WSR 26-08-084, s 357-28-035, filed 3/31/26, effective 5/1/26. Statutory Authority: Chapter 41.06 RCW. WSR 16-17-090, § 357-28-035, filed 8/18/16, effective 9/20/16; WSR 14-24-026, § 357-28-035, filed 11/21/14, effective 12/22/14; WSR 13-19-043, § 357-28-035, filed 9/13/13, effective 10/18/13; WSR 05-21-061, § 357-28-035, filed 10/13/05, effective 11/15/05; WSR 05-16-041, § 357-28-035, filed 7/27/05, effective 9/1/05; WSR 05-01-205, § 357-28-035, filed 12/21/04, effective 7/1/05.]