Section 357-58-005. What is the key role and accountability for Washington management service employees in state government?

Section 357-58-010. What is the purpose of the Washington management service (WMS) rules?

Section 357-58-015. Who is authorized to adopt rules for the WMS?

Section 357-58-020. What are the goals of the WMS rules?

Section 357-58-025. Are WMS employees included in the classified service and what rules apply to WMS employees and positions?

Section 357-58-027. Must agencies maintain position descriptions for each WMS position?

Section 357-58-028. Must a standard form be used to describe each WMS position?

Section 357-58-032. What is the requirement for agencies to develop procedures which address determining inclusion in WMS and evaluating positions for placement within the management bands?

Section 357-58-035. What is the definition of a manager or managerial employee?

Section 357-58-040. Are there any manager positions or managerial employees that are not included in the WMS?

Section 357-58-042. What happens when it has been determined that a position no longer meets the definition of manager found in WAC 357-58-035?

Section 357-58-045. Who is covered by the WMS rules?

Section 357-58-050. What chapters of civil service rules apply to WMS positions?

Section 357-58-055. What civil service rules do not apply to WMS?

Section 357-58-060. Do the WMS rules apply to all general government employers?

Section 357-58-065. Definitions for WMS.

Section 357-58-070. What are the responsibilities of each agency for effectively managing and budgeting salaries for WMS positions?

Section 357-58-075. What is the requirement for agencies to develop compensation policies?

Section 357-58-080. How are positions assigned to the management bands?

Section 357-58-081. How are positions placed into the WMS medical band?

Section 357-58-085. Can WMS salaries be set outside the maximum of an assigned management band?

Section 357-58-087. If the legislature approves a salary increase, will employees whose base salaries are set outside the maximum of the assigned management band receive the salary increase?

Section 357-58-090. For what reasons can an agency adjust a WMS salary?

Section 357-58-095. May agencies provide salary increases for WMS employees?

Section 357-58-096. How often may agencies provide salary increases for WMS employees?

Section 357-58-100. Is there a limit for salary increases?

Section 357-58-105. When can exceptions to the salary increase limits be made?

Section 357-58-110. What is a promotion?

Section 357-58-115. What is a voluntary demotion and what changes may occur in salary?

Section 357-58-120. What is a disciplinary demotion and what changes may occur in salary?

Section 357-58-125. What is an involuntary downward movement and how does that affect the salary?

Section 357-58-126. How is the employee affected when his/her position is involuntarily moved downward as described in WAC 357-58-125?

Section 357-58-130. Do salary increases greater than five percent for a group of employees need approval?

Section 357-58-132. Upon return from exempt service, how is a WMS employee's salary set?

Section 357-58-135. Who can provide lump sum performance recognition payment to employees?

Section 357-58-140. Is there a limit to the amount an employee can receive for performance recognition pay?

Section 357-58-145. When may an agency authorize lump sum relocation compensation?

Section 357-58-150. For what reasons may an employee be required to pay back the relocation payment?

Section 357-58-155. Must the agency develop written criteria for relocation compensation?

Section 357-58-160. How are hours of work established for WMS employees?

Section 357-58-165. Do WMS employees receive leave benefits?

Section 357-58-170. What about other pay issues?

Section 357-58-175. Can an employer authorize lump sum vacation leave or accelerate vacation leave accrual rates to support the recruitment and/or retention of an incumbent or candidate for a WMS position?

Section 357-58-180. Must an agency have a policy regarding authorization of additional leave to support the recruitment of a candidate or the retention of an incumbent for a WMS position?

Section 357-58-185. Must an agency develop a recruitment and selection policy and/or procedure for WMS positions?

Section 357-58-190. What must be addressed in agency's WMS recruitment and selection policy and/or procedure?

Section 357-58-195. Are employers required to grant promotional preference when filling WMS positions?

Section 357-58-200. How may transfers occur?

Section 357-58-205. Under what conditions may an employer reassign a WMS employee?

Section 357-58-210. When may a WMS employee transfer to a WGS position and vice versa?

Section 357-58-215. May a permanent employee voluntarily demote to a WGS position?

Section 357-58-220. May a permanent WMS employee accept a nonpermanent appointment in the WGS?

Section 357-58-225. What return rights must an employer provide to a permanent WMS employee who accepts a nonpermanent appointment to a WGS position?

Section 357-58-226. What happens when a WMS employee who was serving a review period and was appointed to a WGS nonpermanent position returns to the same or different WMS position?

Section 357-58-230. May a permanent WMS employee accept an appointment to a project position in the general service and does the employee have any return right to his/her permanent WMS position?

Section 357-58-235. May employers create WMS positions in projects?

Section 357-58-240. What are the notification requirements for appointing an employee to a project WMS position?

Section 357-58-245. Must an employee appointed to a project position serve a review period?

Section 357-58-250. Must an employee who transfers or voluntarily demotes to a project WMS position serve a review period?

Section 357-58-255. May a permanent WMS employee accept a project appointment within WMS and does the employee have any return rights to his/her permanent WMS position?

Section 357-58-260. What happens to employees in project WMS positions at the conclusion of the project?

Section 357-58-265. When may an agency make an acting WMS appointment and what actions are required?

Section 357-58-270. Does time in an acting appointment count as time in the review period?

Section 357-58-275. May a permanent WMS employee accept an acting WMS appointment and what are the employee's return rights at the conclusion of the acting appointment?

Section 357-58-280. How much notice must an employer give for ending an acting appointment?

Section 357-58-285. When must a WMS employee serve a review period?

Section 357-58-290. How long does the review period last?

Section 357-58-295. May a review period be extended beyond the initial time period?

Section 357-58-300. Does time spent on leave without pay or shared leave count towards completion of an employee's review period?

Section 357-58-305. When does a WMS employee attain permanent status?

Section 357-58-310. When may a WMS employee be required to serve a WMS review period?

Section 357-58-315. When may an employee, who is promoted to another WMS position, in a different agency, while serving a review period, be required to serve a WMS review period?

Section 357-58-320. What happens when a WMS employee promotes to a new WMS position within the same agency while serving in a review period?

Section 357-58-325. What happens when a WGS employee serving a probationary or trial service period is appointed to a WMS position within the same agency?

Section 357-58-330. What happens when a WGS employee serving a probationary or trial service period is appointed to a WMS position in a different agency?

Section 357-58-335. When a WMS employee is promoted in the same position as a result of additional new duties, is a review period required?

Section 357-58-340. When does reversion take place during a review period?

Section 357-58-345. When a permanent WMS employee does not complete the review period, what reversion rights does the employee have?

Section 357-58-350. When a permanent WGS employee does not complete the review period for a WMS position, what reversion rights does the employee have?

Section 357-58-355. Can a permanent employee voluntarily revert during a review period?

Section 357-58-360. May a reverted employee and an agency come to mutual agreement on reversion placement?

Section 357-58-365. Does a WMS employee who does not have permanent status in the classified service have reversion rights?

Section 357-58-370. Are there any appeal rights for reversion or separation during the review period?

Section 357-58-375. When permanent WMS employees promote or demote to positions in the general service and fail to complete the trial service period what reversion rights do permanent WMS employees have?

Section 357-58-385. What is the responsibility of general government employers to provide training and development to WMS employees?

Section 357-58-390. What is the responsibility of WMS managers?

Section 357-58-395. What will be the role of the department of enterprise services?

Section 357-58-400. How does each agency deal with developmental needs of managers?

Section 357-58-405. In addition to the requirements of chapter 357-37 WAC, what must the performance management process focus on for WMS employees?

Section 357-58-410. When and how often must performance feedback be provided to a WMS employee through the formal evaluation process?

Section 357-58-415. What forms and procedures must employers use to plan for and evaluate the performance of managers?

Section 357-58-420. May employers supplement the standardized performance evaluation procedures and forms?

Section 357-58-425. May an employer factor in employee performance when granting recognition leave and when making layoff decisions for WMS employees?

Section 357-58-430. How does an employer receive performance management confirmation which enables them to factor in performance when granting recognition leave and when making layoff decisions for WMS employees?

Section 357-58-435. What elements will the director evaluate to determine if an employer should be granted performance management confirmation?

Section 357-58-438. What is the impact of a layoff?

Section 357-58-440. How may an employer lay off WMS employees and what notice is required?

Section 357-58-445. What are the reasons for layoff?

Section 357-58-450. How does a WMS employee return from an exempt appointment?

Section 357-58-455. How does an employer implement a layoff action?

Section 357-58-460. What must be included in the employer's layoff procedure?

Section 357-58-465. What option does a permanent employee in a WMS position have to take a position when the employee is scheduled for layoff?

Section 357-58-470. How does an employer determine an employee's employment retention rating?

Section 357-58-475. Does a veteran receive any preference in layoff?

Section 357-58-477. Is a WMS employee who is rehired following layoff considered to have had a break in state service?

Section 357-58-480. What provisions governs separation due to disability for WMS employees?

Section 357-58-485. What provisions governs nondisciplinary separation for WMS employees?

Section 357-58-490. What provisions governs separation for unauthorized absence for WMS employees?

Section 357-58-500. May an employee request withdrawal of his/her resignation?

Section 357-58-505. Does a WMS employee have appeal rights?

Section 357-58-510. Can the agency's decision regarding which WMS position to eliminate in a layoff action be appealed?

Section 357-58-515. When a WMS employee disagrees with an employer's action, can the employee request the employer reconsider the action that was taken?

Section 357-58-520. What requirements must be included in the agency's WMS reconsideration procedures?

Section 357-58-525. How does the employee request reconsideration of an agency action?

Section 357-58-530. What is the responsibility of agencies to track and analyze requests for reconsideration of agency actions?

Section 357-58-540. What type of records are agencies required to keep and report for WMS employees?

Section 357-58-546. What is the director's authority to review actions taken by an agency under chapter 357-58 WAC or to audit an agency's WMS processes?

Section 357-58-550. May an employer temporarily layoff a WMS employee?

Section 357-58-551. Are there any limits to temporary layoff?

Section 357-58-552. Under the provisions of temporary layoff, what happens if an employer has less than twenty hours per week of work for a WMS employee to perform?

Section 357-58-553. What is the notice requirement to temporarily layoff a WMS employee?

Section 357-58-554. What is a WMS employee's status during temporary layoff?

Section 357-58-555. At the conclusion of a temporary layoff, does a WMS employee have the right to return to the position he/she held immediately prior to being temporarily laid off?

Section 357-58-556. How is a WMS employee's temporary layoff day determined when an employee works a night shift schedule which begins one calendar day and ends on the next?

Section 357-58-565. What mechanism must be used to report WMS inclusion and evaluation activities?