The 2023-2025 contract changed the “Adjusting Length of Service Credit” language as highlighted below. If you would like to request additional vacation service credit for prior private sector service not previously credited, we encourage you to reach out to your human resources staff in writing along with documentation of prior employment.
Section 4. Adjusting Length of Service Credit. Employees appointed to a position covered by this agreement within four (4) years of separation from another public employer shall be allowed to transfer length of service credit for purposes of vacation accrual. The transfer shall become effective on the date the Agency receives a written request with documentation of prior employment.
At the discretion of the Appointing Authority, employees who are hired into State service may be granted length of service credit in an amount up to the total years of previous work related to the employer’s current State position in an amount determined by the Appointing Authority. At the Appointing Authority’s discretion and in an amount determined by the Appointing Authority, current bargaining unit employees may request consideration for length of service credit in an amount up to the total years of previous work related to the employee’s current State position.
Changes in the accrual rate shall become effective the beginning of the next payroll period following the Appointing Authority’s approval of the adjusted rate and shall not be retroactive.
Vacation leave may be accumulated to any amount provided that once during each fiscal year, each employee’s accumulation must be reduced to two hundred seventy-five (275) hours or less. This must be accomplished on or before the last day of the fiscal year. If not, it shall automatically be reduced to two hundred seventy-five (275) hours at the end of the last payroll period of the fiscal year. Vacation leave hours shall not be used during the payroll period in which the hours are accrued.
Employees on a military leave under Article 10 shall earn and accrue vacation leave as though actually employed, without regard to the maximum accumulation set forth above. Vacation earned in excess of the maximum accumulation shall be taken within two (2) years of the date the employee returns from military leave.