PROPOSED RULES
Original Notice.
Exempt from preproposal statement of inquiry under RCW 34.05.310(4).
Title of Rule and Other Identifying Information: WAC 357-46-010 What are the reasons for layoff? and 357-46-012 Following the award of a contract under the competitive contracting process, how does an employer layoff displaced employees as defined by WAC 357-43-001?
Hearing Location(s): Department of Personnel, 521 Capitol Way South, Olympia, WA, on November 18, 2004, at 10:00 a.m.
Date of Intended Adoption: November 18, 2004.
Submit Written Comments to: Sharon Whitehead, Department of Personnel, P.O. Box 47500, fax (360) 586-4694, by November 12, 2004. FOR DOP TRACKING PURPOSES PLEASE NOTE ON SUBMITTED COMMENTS "FORMAL COMMENT."
Assistance for Persons with Disabilities: Contact Department of Personnel by November 12, 2004, TTY (360) 753-4107 or (360) 586-8260.
Purpose of the Proposal and Its Anticipated Effects, Including Any Changes in Existing Rules: These rules address the reasons for layoff and how a state employer will layoff a displaced employee following the award of a contract under the competitive contracting process.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: Chapter 41.06 RCW.
Statute Being Implemented: RCW 41.06.150.
Rule is not necessitated by federal law, federal or state court decision.
Agency Comments or Recommendations, if any, as to Statutory Language, Implementation, Enforcement, and Fiscal Matters: Due to the passage of SHB 1268 the director of the Department of Personnel has rule-making authority regarding layoff. These rules will be in the layoff chapter.
Name of Proponent: Department of Personnel, governmental.
Name of Agency Personnel Responsible for Drafting: Sharon Whitehead, 521 Capitol Way South, Olympia, WA, (360) 664-6348; Implementation and Enforcement: Department of Personnel.
No small business economic impact statement has been prepared under chapter 19.85 RCW. Not required.
A cost-benefit analysis is not required under RCW 34.05.328.
October 5, 2004
E. C. Matt
Director
(a) Lack of funds;
(b) Lack of work; or
(c) Organizational change.
(2) Examples of layoff actions due to lack of work may include, but are not limited to:
(a) Termination of a project or special employment;
(b) Availability of fewer positions than there are employees entitled to such positions;
(c) Employee's ineligibility to continue in a position following its reallocation to a class with a higher salary range maximum; or
(d) Employee's ineligibility to continue, or choice not to continue, in a position following its reallocation to a class with a lower salary range maximum.
(e) Elimination of a position due to the work of the position being competitively contracted.
[Statutory Authority: Chapter 41.06 RCW. 04-18-114, § 357-46-010, filed 9/1/04, effective 7/1/05.]
(2) Displaced employees as defined by WAC 357-43-001 who are not part of the employee business unit awarded the contracted are subject to the employer's layoff procedure when the employees' positions are eliminated or reduced (See WAC 357-43-008 for what happens if a displaced employee chooses to be removed from an employee business unit.)
(3) Displaced employees as defined by WAC 357-43-001 who are part of the employee business unit awarded the contract become an employee business unit member on the effective date of the contract. Employee business unit members do not have layoff rights under chapter 357-46 WAC.
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Reviser's note: The typographical error in the above section occurred in the copy filed by the agency and appears in the Register pursuant to the requirements of RCW 34.08.040.