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Cost-saving strategies<\/a><\/h3>\n

Economic and operational conditions may sometimes require organizations to determine work reduction and other cost-saving strategies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Furlough transaction process<\/a><\/h3>\n

Workday entries UWHR will coordinate after your unit\u2019s furlough plan is approved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Organizational restructuring<\/a><\/h3>\n

As an organizational leader, you may find it necessary to change how your unit operates to accommodate changing unit priorities, initiate new programs, enhance organizational effectiveness, and\/or address budget reductions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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FAQs: Furloughs and temporary FTE reduction<\/a><\/h3>\n

FAQs for managers and HR partners administering furloughs or temporary FTE reductions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Support for staff on furloughs<\/a><\/h3>\n

Information and resources to support staff whose position has been placed on a furlough.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Temporary layoff policy<\/a><\/h3>\n

A temporary layoff may be required because of events at the institutional or employing unit level resulting in a temporary lack of funds or work.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Managing salary and wage impacts due to a temporary loss of funding<\/a><\/h3>\n

This webpage outlines the approaches and procedures to temporarily stop or minimize employee salary and wage expenditures.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Understanding your furlough: work rules and benefits<\/a><\/h3>\n

Information for staff whose positions have been placed on furlough, including how to prepare, what work is and is not allowed, and how UW benefits are maintained during furlough. The page also covers unemployment, temporary UW work opportunities, returning from furlough and where employees can find support.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Guidance for organizational restructuring, temporary layoffs, cost-saving strategies, and furloughs and temporary FTE reductions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":1624,"parent":0,"menu_order":30,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-25","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/ops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/ops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/ops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/ops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/ops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/ops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7696,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/ops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions\/7696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/ops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/ops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/ops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}