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.
Wash. Admin. Code § 357-46-065
Statutory Authority: Chapter 41.06 RCW. 05-12-074, § 357-46-065, filed 5/27/05, effective 7/1/05.