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Bridging Service Dates?

MissyMissy 30 Posts
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I am looking for a policy that bridges service dates for employees that are rehired after a reduction in force. Currently, all of our returning employees start their time over at zero, which impacts vacation and service awards, as well as other company benefits. We'd like to change that for those employees who lost their employment involuntarily through no fault of their own.

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  • ritaanzritaanz 2,665 Posts
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    Missy: Here's how we do it here. If an employee resigns and gets rehired, his hire date is the new date he returned to the company.

    If it is a RIF and the employee has less than one year of service, his hire date is the new date he returned. If the employee had more than one year of service, his hire date is adjusted. Take his original hire date and deduct the time away from the company and now you have a new hire date.

    For example:
    DOH 3/31/94
    DOT 6/9/99
    Rehire 8/11/99
    Gone 2 months, 2 days
    New Hire Date 6/2/94

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  • Lori BLori B 172 Posts
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    Hi Missy

    We bridge service for things like vacation if ee rejoins us within 2 years. Our insurance benefits are goverened by contracts so we can't bridge for that. Retirement plans are also governed by plan document. You need to be careful here b/c many plans use complicated break in service rules that may allow all your former ees to come back into the plan if they incur less than 5 breaks in service (ie, RTW within 5 years). Plans differ so look at yours carefully whenever you make blanket statements about bridging service for all benefits.

    Lori
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