

Management reviews and approves the plan as long as it is consistent with operating needs.ĭuration of VRWS agreement which may be up to a maximum of 26 biweekly payroll periods with the VRWS agreement expiring no later than the last day of the last payroll period in the fiscal year. Description of an Employee VRWS AgreementĪn employee develops a plan for a reduced work schedule. Participating employees may reduce their work schedules (and salaries) a minimum of 5 percent, in 5 percent increments, up to a maximum of 30 percent. (Under the Guidelines for the 1984-86 Program, VRWS was available to employees: (1) who were full-time annual-salaried employees as of April 1, 1984, or (2) who first entered the PS&T Unit as full-time annual-salaried employees between Apand April 1, 1986.) Payroll periods of VRWS participation, Sick Leave at Half Pay, or Workers' Compensation Leave and time on the Leave Donation Program will count toward the one-year service requirement.Įmployees who were eligible for the VRWS Program under the 1984-86 Program Guidelines continue to be eligible to participate in the Program even if they never participated in the 1984-86 VRWS Program.

Employees who separate from State service (through resignation, termination, layoff, etc.) for more than one year cannot count service preceding that break in service toward the one-year requirement (unless the employee is reinstated by the Civil Service Commission or Department or appointed while on a preferred list).
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In other words, beginning with the first full biweekly pay period in October 2000, employees will no longer be required to complete 26 consecutive biweekly pay periods of full-time service immediately prior to entering into a VRWS agreement.Ĭonsistent with the way in which creditable service is counted under the Attendance Rules, separations of less than one year and periods of leave without pay of any duration are not counted toward the one-year service requirement but do not constitute a break in service. Time on paid or unpaid leave from a full-time annual salaried position satisfies this requirement.Įmployees must remain in a full-time annual salaried position during the term of the VRWS agreement.Įmployees must have one continuous year of State service on a qualifying schedule (any schedule which entitled the employee to earn leave credits, not necessarily a full-time schedule). The following eligibility criteria shall apply:Įmployees are required to be employed to work on a full-time annual salaried basis for a minimum of one biweekly payroll period immediately prior to the time of entry into the VRWS Program. This program is available to certain annual-salaried employees in the PS&T, CSEA, UUP, DC37, and M/C Units.

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