Rehiring an Employee and Adjusting Service Dates

You can rehire a former employee after a break in service. Information from the employee's former record is moved to a history record.

  1. On the Employees form, select the employee's record.
  2. Click Rehire Employee.

    On the Rehire Employee form, the employee ID of the returning employee is shown.

  3. Specify the new hire date.
  4. 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.
  5. Click Process and close the form.
  6. On the Employees form, click Employment Periods.
  7. 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.
  8. Select Use in Adjusted Hire Date Calculation for each period that you want to include in the employee's length of service calculation.
  9. Save your changes and close the form.
  10. 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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