Service Credit Date means the date assigned to each regular or limited term status employee based upon his/her most recent date of hire into a regular or limited term position with the Employer. An employee whose hire date occurs on or between the first and the fifteenth of any month will establish their service credit date on the first of that month. An employee whose hire date occurs on or between the sixteenth and the last day of the month will establish their service credit date on the first of the following month. The service credit date will be used in setting step increase schedules, establishing vacation accrual rates, earning service awards and determining length of service for retirement purposes.
Service Credit Date. An employee’s service credit date shall be the employee’s most recent date of hire with the City of Bellevue. An employee whose hire date occurs on or between the first and the fifteenth of any month will establish his/her service credit date on the first of that month. An employee whose hire date occurs on or between the sixteenth and the last day of the month will establish his/her service credit date on the first of the following month. LEOFF I employees who are absent from work due to a disability or disability retirement shall not have their service credit dates adjusted for the period of disability or disability retirement; LEOFF II employees who are absent from work due to a disability or disability retirement shall not have their service credit dates adjusted for the period of disability or disability retirement if they return to work within five (5) years after the commencement of their disability leave.