Under the provisions of temporary layoff, what happens if an employer has less than twenty hours per week of work for an employee to perform?
If an employer has less than twenty hours per week of work for an employee to perform during a period of temporary layoff, the employer must notify the employee that he/she is being furloughed. The employer may then offer the available work hours to the employee as a nonpermanent appointment under the provisions of WAC
357-19-360 or temporary appointment under the provisions of WAC
357-19-435.
[Statutory Authority: Chapter
41.06 RCW. WSR 05-12-074, ยง 357-46-065, filed 5/27/05, effective 7/1/05.]