N.J. Admin. Code § 4A:3-4.6

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 21, November 4, 2024

Section 4A:3-4.6 - Anniversary date change when employee is in non-pay status: State service

(a) Except as provided in (b) below, time spent by employees in non-pay status, including suspensions, shall not be included in total time of employment when calculating eligibility for annual increments.

1. An employee's anniversary date shall be advanced by one full pay period for each full pay period in non-pay status.

2. If an employee is in non-pay status on an intermittent basis during the course of a calendar year, the employee's anniversary date shall be advanced by one pay period for each 10 working days in non-pay status.

(b) The following periods of non-pay status shall not be deducted from earned time for purposes of calculating anniversary dates:

1. Military leave;

2. Educational leave;

3. The two month period when employees in 10 month job titles are not scheduled to work;

4. Days on which part-time employees are not scheduled to work;

5. Leave without pay following exhaustion of sick leave injury;

6. Leave without pay while receiving workers' compensation benefits;

7. Leave without pay under a voluntary alternative to layoff program;

8. Voluntary furlough; and

9. Furlough extension leave.

(c) When an employee returns from one full pay period or more in non-pay status, or when an employee accumulates 10 or more working days in non-pay status on an intermittent basis, the appointing authority shall notify the Chairperson or designee and the employee in writing that the anniversary date is to be changed. If an alternate workweek plan has been established, consideration of the adjusted hours per day must be made when counting the number of work days in non-pay status.

(d) Intermittent days without pay which total less than 10 shall not be carried forward to the next calendar year.

N.J. Admin. Code § 4A:3-4.6

Amended by 49 N.J.R. 1182(a), effective 5/15/2017