You can rehire a former employee after a break in service. Information
from the employee's former record is moved to a history record.
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On the Employees form, select the
employee's record.
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Click Rehire Employee.
On the Rehire Employee form, the employee
ID of the returning employee is shown.
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Specify the new hire date.
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Indicate whether the time from previous periods of employment should
be considered when calculating the employee's length of service. If
the employee has worked for your company multiple times with breaks
between, you can later select which periods of employment to include
in the calculation.
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Click Process and close the form.
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On the Employees form, click Employment Periods.
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The Employee Employment Periods form
displays a record for the employee for each previous period of employment
with your company. The service days from each employment period are
shown.
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Select Use in Adjusted Hire Date Calculation
for each period that you want to include in the employee's length
of service calculation.
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Save your changes and close the form.
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On the Employees form, the Adjusted Hire Date is updated based on the
accumulated service days calculation.
For example, this table shows how the adjusted hire date is calculated,
based on various periods of service:
| Information |
Date |
Service Days |
Use in Adjusted Hire Date Calculation? |
| Original hire date |
January 1, 2011 |
|
|
| Original termination date |
December 30, 2011 |
363 |
Yes |
| Return to work date |
January 1, 2013 |
|
|
| Termination date |
May 1, 2013 |
120 |
Yes |
| Return to work date |
October 1, 2013 |
|
|
| Termination date |
December 31, 2013 |
91 |
Yes |
| Return to work date |
February 1, 2014 |
|
|
| Termination date |
April 30, 2014 |
88 |
No |
| Current return to work date |
January 1, 2015 |
|
|
| Adjusted hire date calculation |
June 6, 2013 (January 1, 2015 minus 574 days) |
574 total (363 + 120 + 9) |
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