Managing salary and wage impacts due to a temporary loss of funding
Last updated: June 4, 2026
This webpage outlines the approaches and procedures to temporarily stop or minimize employee salary and wage expenditures.
If the need to temporarily stop or minimize salary and wage expenditures is emergent or unknown, contact your HR Consultant.
It is important to begin the notification processes as soon as possible because furloughs and temporary layoffs require at least 7 days’ notice (UAW Research Scientist Engineers shall receive 30 calendar days’ written notice of temporary FTE reduction).
Options for Emergent, Temporary, or Unknown Funding Loss
| Employee Type | Options |
|---|---|
| Regular staff | Furlough; Temporary FTE Reduction |
| PSTP Salaried Staff, Nonpermanent Fixed Duration Staff | Furlough; Temporary FTE Reduction; End Employment and Position Elimination |
| Nonpermanent, Intermittent, PSTP, Other Temporary Staff | End Employment and Position Elimination; Remove from schedule |
| Research and Without Tenure (WOT) Faculty | Reduced Responsibility |
| Fully-Tenured Faculty or Faculty on Annual or Multi-Year Term Appointments | No HR Action (Must find other funding unless self-initiated FTE reduction) |
| Salaried Postdoctoral Scholars | Furlough; Temporary FTE Reduction |
| Salaried UAW ASEs | To Be Determined: No decision has been made |
| Hourly UAW ASEs | Furlough; Temporary FTE Reduction; Remove from schedule |
| Student Hourly Employees | End Employment and Position Elimination; Remove from schedule |
| Stipend Recipients | No HR Action (Must find other funding) |
Procedure
- Contact your HR Consultant. UWHR has developed streamlined processes for processing temporary FTE reductions and furloughs. After consultation, your HRC will provide you with a spreadsheet to complete.
- Return your completed spreadsheet to your HR Consultant.
- Your HR Consultant will review within two business days and confirm that bargaining unit-covered work is not going to an outside vendor and that the correct employees are being impacted.