Understanding Break Rules

An employee accrues service continuously from the time of hire until retirement. Often, however, service is interrupted by breaks, due to termination and rehire, leave of absence, and other status changes. Break rules determine when an employee is charged with a break in service and how that status affects prior service accrual. Break rules comprise break restore and break wait rules.

You implement break definitions using the same function results as you use for service definitions. When you create a service function result, the Function Result page automatically includes parameters for the break definition.