{"id":49,"date":"2016-06-29T20:55:20","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T20:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/ops\/?page_id=49"},"modified":"2026-07-06T14:34:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T21:34:26","slug":"ending-employment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/ops\/ending-employment\/","title":{"rendered":"Ending employment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"children-pages\">\n<div class=\"child-page\">\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/ops\/ending-employment\/layoffs\/\">Layoff<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"excerpt\">Understand how the layoff process works and learn how to plan and communicate layoffs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"child-page\">\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/ops\/ending-employment\/voluntary-termination\/\">Voluntary termination<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"excerpt\">Guidance for processing voluntary terminations when an employee resigns from UW employment. The page covers resignation letter requirements, offboarding checklists, retention counter offers, employment references, and requests to rescind a resignation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"child-page\">\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/ops\/ending-employment\/involuntary-termination\/\">Involuntary Termination<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"excerpt\">Involuntary termination can occur when an employee has either not improved performance or behavior in response to corrective action or has engaged in serious misconduct.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"child-page\">\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/ops\/ending-employment\/disability-separation\/\">Disability separation<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"excerpt\">When an employee with a disability cannot perform the essential functions of their position even after reasonable accommodation has been attempted<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"child-page\">\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/ops\/ending-employment\/unemployment-benefits\/\">Unemployment benefits<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"excerpt\">Individuals who meet eligibility criteria and who are laid off from the UW may be eligible for unemployment benefits.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"child-page\">\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/ops\/ending-employment\/managing-stress\/\">Managing stress due to involuntary job loss<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"excerpt\">Support for employees navigating the stress and uncertainty that can come with furlough, layoff or involuntary job loss.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Information on ending employment, layoff and disability separation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":1622,"parent":0,"menu_order":20,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"yes","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-49","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/ops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49","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=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/ops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7697,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/ops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions\/7697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/ops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/ops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}