Broken Service

[P739]

Can anybody tell me what the rule is here concerning leaving the business and then coming back.... What constitutes broken service...ie a week or two or more..Thanks.

[Talell]

Once you leave the business, your continuous service ends. If you decide to come back, your new start date is the start of your new continuous service.

There should be no bleed through, unless there is a good reason for it.

Way forward (6.13.6 page 25) says, "However service must be continuous, with periods prior to any break in contract (due to re-employment, for example) not generally included, unless there are exceptional circumstances applying to particular cases that are agreed at local level"

[Patrick Clifton]

At my office, we had someone return and kept his service as he returned within 6 months.