An employee's service date is used to determine the amount of annual vacation and sick leave earned, and to compute eligibility for the Public Employees Retirement System. For most employees, this is the date of hire. If an employee leaves employment or is on leave without pay status with the Nebraska Court System for other than disciplinary reasons and returns to employment with the Nebraska Court System within 5 years, the service date will be adjusted for the period of absence. The employee will earn leave at the same rate as when they left employment with the Nebraska Court System and their accumulated unpaid sick leave balance will be reinstated. The employee will be considered a "new employee" for original provisional status purposes. If an employee has retired from the Nebraska Supreme Court or another State Agency and returns to work after the required 120 day break in service, the employee's service date will be reset to the date of reemployment and the employee will earn leave at the rate of a new employee.

Amended 7-16-03; amended 7-9-15.