(a) Whenever an employee who has worked on a full-time, continuous basis for the state of Tennessee for at least one (1) full year leaves state employment in good standing and returns to state service as a full-time state employee, the employee shall immediately be credited with all sick leave to which the employee was entitled at the time of the previous termination; provided, that any such employee having had at least one (1) full year of employment and returning to state service as a full-time state employee who has had any interim employment with the state of Tennessee for less than one (1) year shall not be disqualified from receiving such credited sick leave to which the employee was otherwise qualified to receive because of the employee’s prior employment with the state.

Terms Used In Tennessee Code 8-50-804

  • Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
  • Service: means service as a general employee, a teacher, a state police officer, a wildlife officer, a firefighter, a police officer, a state judge, a county judge, an attorney general, a commissioner or a county official which is paid for by an employer, and also includes service for which a former member of the general assembly is entitled to under former §. See Tennessee Code 8-34-101
  • State: means the state of Tennessee. See Tennessee Code 8-34-101
  • Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(b) The personnel officer or appointing authority of the last employing department shall be responsible for certifying entitlement to such sick leave credit to the agency reemploying the employee so entitled.
(c) This section shall be effective as to eligible employees who have returned to state service.
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