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(1) Employees are required to be employed to work on a full-time annual

salaried basis for a minimum of one bi-weekly payroll period immediately

prior to the time of entry into the VRWS Program. Time on paid or unpaid
leave from a full-time annual salaried position satisfies this requirement.

and
Employees must remain in a full-time annual salaried position during

the term of the VR agreement.
and

Employees 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).
Consistent 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. 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.) 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.

b. Work Schedule Reduction: Participating employees may reduce their
work schedules (and salaries) a minimum of five (5) percent, in five percent

increments, up to a maximum of thirty (30) percent.

c. Term of VRWS Program: Effective with the first full bi-weekly payroll
period in October 2000, the VRWS program will commence for employees
in the Administrative Services, Operational Services, Institutional Services

and Division of Military and Naval Affairs Units.

3. Description of an Employee VRWS Agreement
a. An employee develops a plan for a reduced work schedule.

b. Management reviews and approves the plan as long as it is consistent
with operating needs.

c. Jointly agreed plan specifies:
(1) Duration of VRWS agreement which may be up to a maximum of 26

bi-weekly payroll periods with the VRWS agreement expiring the last day
of the last payroll period in the fiscal year.

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