Long Service Recognition Benefit. Long Service Recognition benefits may be paid to regular unit members for years of service served in the District in recognition of accrued continuous time without a break in service. Such service recognition will be paid in addition to the unit members’ scheduled rate of compensation and will commence as follows: Effective January 1, 2004 Long Service Recognition benefits will be: Beginning 8th Year .25 per hour Beginning 11th Year .41 per hour Beginning 16th year .56 per hour Beginning 21st Year .71 per hour Beginning 26th Year .87 per hour Effective July 1, 2015, any percentage increase to the salary schedule shall be applied to the long service recognition benefit increments. Beginning the 25th year of service with the District, an employee will be granted one (1) additional vacation day. This day shall be added to regular vacation days, and taken during the following year in accordance with Article XIV of the current agreement. Unit members who have service for at least two (2) years as regular employees and who leave the employment of the District and are re-employed within thirty-nine (39) months from the last date of regular employment, will not have such severance considered a break in service. The severed time, however, will not be considered as time in service. Credit for prior service time will be counted as part of the eligibility requirement. Re-employment after thirty-nine (39) months will constitute a break in service for purposes of this Article and shall be considered the same as new employment. The receipt of long-service recognition benefits will be dependent upon the unit member receiving a satisfactory evaluation for each year of service to be counted.
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