1. An employee
receives a new pay progression date if he or she is:
(a) Promoted to a position that results in an
increase of two grades or more; or
(b) Reinstated.
2. An employee who is:
(a) Promoted to a position that results in an
increase of one grade;
(b) In a
position that is reclassified to a higher class as a result of an individual
classification study or an occupational study;
(c) Transferred to a position without
receiving an increase in grade;
(d)
Reappointed to a position at a grade that he or she formerly held;
(e) Reemployed and has remained continuously
employed; or
(f) Demoted, retains
the pay progression date held before the action described in paragraphs (a) to
(f), inclusive, occurred.
3. If a person who is eligible for military
reemployment is reemployed, he or she retains the pay progression date held
when separated from this State for his or her service in the
military.
4. If an employee was
promoted but is being restored to his or her former position or class pursuant
to the provisions of NAC
284.462, the date of appointment
and pay progression date of the former position must be restored. If, pursuant
to subparagraph (1) of paragraph (c) of subsection 2 of NAC
284.462, the employee is placed
in a position in a class equal to or lower than the class of the position held
by the employee immediately before the promotion, the pay progression date of
the former position must be restored.
5. Except as otherwise provided in this
subsection and subsection 6, an employee's pay progression date must be
adjusted:
(a) To equal 1 year of full-time
equivalent service for an employee who changes from full-time employment to
part-time employment or from part-time employment to full-time employment;
or
(b) On a day-for-day basis for
the amount of time the employee:
(1) Was
separated from state service if the employee is reemployed within 1 year after
the date on which he or she was laid off or received a seasonal
separation.
(2) Was separated from
state service if the employee is a person with a permanent disability arising
from a work-related injury or occupational disease who is reemployed within 1
year after the date on which he or she sustained the permanent disability as
determined pursuant to NAC
284.6013.
(3) Was on leave without pay, or on
catastrophic leave, if the employee is:
(I) A
nonexempt employee and the leave without pay or catastrophic leave was in
excess of 240 hours; or
(II) An
exempt classified employee and the leave without pay or catastrophic leave was
in excess of 30 working days, in a year, except for leave without pay for a
work-related injury or illness pursuant to
NRS
281.390 or on a military leave of absence
pursuant to
NRS
284.359 or a leave of absence without pay
during a fiscal emergency pursuant to NAC
284.580. An employee whose base
hours are more than 80 hours biweekly must be allotted additional leave without
pay and catastrophic leave in proportion to the base hours for his or her pay
class designation. As used in this subparagraph, "year" means a period equal to
12 months of full-time equivalent service measured backward from the employee's
pay progression date.
6. If the number of total hours of leave
without pay or catastrophic leave of a nonexempt employee that exceed 240 hours
is less than 1 day of full-time equivalent service for the pay class
designation of the employee, an adjustment will not be made for those
hours.
7. If an employee is on
leave without pay, or on catastrophic leave, on his or her pay progression
date, any adjustment to his or her pay progression date will be made after he
or she returns to work.