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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.

(2) Percentage reduction of work schedule and salary.
(3) Amount of VR time earned in exchange for reduced salary.

(4) Schedule for use of VR time earned. This may be either a fixed

schedule, e.g., every Friday, every Wednesday afternoon, an entire month
off, etc. or intermittent time off.
(i) An employee’s fixed schedule VR time off, once the VRWS schedule

has been agreed upon by management, cannot be changed without the

consent of the employee except in an emergency. In the event an employee’s
schedule is changed without his or her consent, the employee may appeal

this action through an expedited grievance procedure.
(ii) VR time used as intermittent time off will be subject to scheduling

during the term of the VRWS agreement, and will require advance approval
by the employee’s supervisor.

d. While the VRWS agreement is in effect, the employee will earn and

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