N.J.A.C. 4A:3-4.16 Salaries of employees on military leave during a trainee period: State service
N.J.A.C. 4A:3-4.16, Salaries of employees on military leave during a trainee period: State service. Upon return from military leave, a regularly appointed employee in a trainee title shall receive a salary at the six months rate, provided the total time in
Current through New Jersey Register, Vol. 58 No. 14, July 20, 2026. Reviewed as of July 26, 2026.
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In plain language
Military leave during a trainee period is bridged rather than penalised, and the rule works on three fronts. On return, a regularly appointed employee in a trainee title is paid at the six months rate provided the total time in the title, on the job and on leave together, comes to six months or more, so the leave counts toward reaching that rate. After the full 12 months of trainee service on the job, including the required working test period, the employee advances to the primary title at the salary they would have been receiving had the leave never happened. And the personnel record is written backwards: seniority in every pertinent title is recorded retroactive to the dates it would have been gained without the military service.
Written by the NJ Civil Service Navigator editorial team from the text of N.J.A.C. 4A:3-4.16. It is a description of the rule, not the rule itself, and not legal advice.
(a) Upon return from military leave, a regularly appointed employee in a trainee title shall receive a salary at the six months rate, provided the total time in the trainee title on the job and on leave equals six months or more. #
(b) Upon successful completion of the total 12 months of trainee service on the job, including the required working test period, the employee will be advanced to the primary title at the salary rate the employee would have received had the employee not been on military leave. #
(c) The employee's personnel record shall indicate seniority in all pertinent titles retroactive to dates on which the employee would have gained such seniority had the employee not gone on military leave. #
Elsewhere in Compensation
- 4A:3-4.1 General provisions
- 4A:3-4.2 Job evaluation: State service
- 4A:3-4.3 Job reevaluation requests and appeals: State service
- 4A:3-4.4 Salary rates for initial appointments: State service
- 4A:3-4.5 Anniversary dates: State service
- 4A:3-4.6 Anniversary date change when employee is in non-pay status: State service
- 4A:3-4.7 Determining types of pay adjustments: State service
- 4A:3-4.8 Lateral pay adjustments: State service
- 4A:3-4.9 Advancement pay adjustments: State service
- 4A:3-4.10 Demotional pay adjustments: State service
- 4A:3-4.11 Downward title reevaluation pay adjustments: State service
- 4A:3-4.12 Movement of employees from no-range or single rate titles to titles having salary ranges: State service
- 4A:3-4.13 Salaries of employees whose annual salaries are not on a step in their salary range: State service
- 4A:3-4.14 Movement of employees to trainee titles from titles having higher pay rates: State service
- 4A:3-4.15 Salaries for employees appointed to tentative title positions: State service
- 4A:3-4.17 Salaries and anniversary dates for employees appointed from a special reemployment list: State service
- 4A:3-4.18 Salaries and anniversary dates for employees appointed from a regular reemployment list: State service
- 4A:3-4.19 Other forms of compensation: State service
- 4A:3-4.20 Retroactive pay: State service
- 4A:3-4.21 Salary overpayments: State service