N.J.A.C. 4A:3-4.6 Anniversary date change when employee is in non-pay status: State service
N.J.A.C. 4A:3-4.6, Anniversary date change when employee is in non-pay status: State service. Except as provided in (b) below, time spent by employees in non-pay status, including suspensions, shall not be included in total time of employment when ca Full text with 4 recorded amendments, 1 citing de
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
Nine kinds of non-pay time do not push an increment date back, and they are worth knowing by name: military leave, educational leave, the two months when a 10 month title is not scheduled to work, days a part-time employee is not scheduled, leave without pay after sick leave injury is exhausted, leave without pay while receiving workers compensation, leave without pay under a voluntary alternative to layoff program, voluntary furlough, and furlough extension leave. Everything else in non-pay status, suspensions included, comes out of the time counted toward an annual increment. The arithmetic is one pay period of delay for each full pay period in non-pay status, or one pay period for every 10 working days accumulated as scattered non-pay days across a calendar year. Scattered days totalling fewer than 10 expire rather than carrying into the next year. The appointing authority has to notify both the Chairperson and the employee in writing when the date changes.
Written by the NJ Civil Service Navigator editorial team from the text of N.J.A.C. 4A:3-4.6. It is a description of the rule, not the rule itself, and not legal advice.
(a) Except as provided in (b) below, time spent by employees in non-pay status, including suspensions, shall not be included in total time of employment when calculating eligibility for annual increments. #
1. An employee's anniversary date shall be advanced by one full pay period for each full pay period in non-pay status. #
2. If an employee is in non-pay status on an intermittent basis during the course of a calendar year, the employee's anniversary date shall be advanced by one pay period for each 10 working days in non-pay status. #
(b) The following periods of non-pay status shall not be deducted from earned time for purposes of calculating anniversary dates: #
1. Military leave; #
2. Educational leave; #
3. The two month period when employees in 10 month job titles are not scheduled to work; #
4. Days on which part-time employees are not scheduled to work; #
5. Leave without pay following exhaustion of sick leave injury; #
6. Leave without pay while receiving workers' compensation benefits; #
7. Leave without pay under a voluntary alternative to layoff program; #
8. Voluntary furlough; and #
9. Furlough extension leave. #
(c) When an employee returns from one full pay period or more in non-pay status, or when an employee accumulates 10 or more working days in non-pay status on an intermittent basis, the appointing authority shall notify the Chairperson or designee and the employee in writing that the anniversary date is to be changed. If an alternate workweek plan has been established, consideration of the adjusted hours per day must be made when counting the number of work days in non-pay status. #
(d) Intermittent days without pay which total less than 10 shall not be carried forward to the next calendar year. #
Amendment history
Rule numbers, effective dates and New Jersey Register citations as published. 4 recorded changes.
- AmendedR.2017 d.10048 N.J.R. 2653(a); 49 N.J.R. 1182(a)
- AmendedR.1995 d.1226 N.J.R. 4126(a); 27 N.J.R. 145(a)
- AmendedR.1993 d.42425 N.J.R. 1916(a); 25 N.J.R. 4064(a)
- date not statedAdministrative correction27 N.J.R. 2577(b)
How this rule has been applied
1 decision has cited N.J.A.C. 4A:3-4.6. The list below is citations to those decisions, not the decisions. We have not written summaries for this section. A citation with no summary is deliberate: we do not paraphrase a decision we have not read. Nothing here is legal advice.
Civil Service Commission final determinations (1)
- In re Kurapka, Greystone Park Psych. Hosp., Dep't of Health, CSC Docket No. 2024-16392024 N.J. CSC LEXIS 338Docket 2024-1639
Rules that point here
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:3-4.7 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:3-4.16 Salaries of employees on military leave during a trainee period: 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