SDCL § 28-7A-13: Employment as work activity.

An adult in a family receiving assistance under this chapter may fill a vacant employment position in order to engage in a work activity except no such adult may be employed or assigned if any other individual is on layoff from the same or any substantially equivalent job or if the employer has terminated the employment of any regular employee or otherwise caused an involuntary reduction of its workforce in order to fill the vacancy so created.