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Appendix XII

Voluntary Reduction in Work Schedule

Program Guidelines Introduction:
Voluntary Reduction in Work Schedule (VRWS) is a program that allows

employees to voluntarily trade income for time off. The VRWS program is
available to eligible annual-salaried employees in the Administrative

Services Unit (ASU), Operational Services Unit (OSU), Institutional
Services Unit (ISU), and Division of Military and Naval Affairs Unit

(DMNA). Individual VRWS agreements may be entered into for any
number of payroll periods up to a maximum of 26 bi-weekly pay periods in

duration and must expire at the end of the last payroll period in the fiscal
year.

1. Purposes
a. VRWS provides agencies with a flexible mechanism for allocating staff

resources.
b. VRWS permits employees to reduce their work schedules to reflect

personal needs and interests.
2. Limitations: Eligibility, Work Schedule Reduction, Term of VRWS

a. Eligibility: This program is available to certain annual-salaried
employees in the Administrative Services, Operational Services,

Institutional Services and Division of Military and Naval Affairs Units.
(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

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