Originally Posted by EWRflyr

Something tells me it will go to what CAL does. They adjust the travel date literally for time in service. Furloughed? They look at how long you were furloughed and adjust your date accordingly from when you were hired. Say that was January 1, 2008 and you were furloughed for two years on January 1, 2009. When you returned on January 1, 2011, you have one year of time in service so your new travel date would be January 1, 2010.

The college kid from the above example would not keep the absent 10 years credit as time with the company for travel. They would look at his hire date and the date he left. Calculate that total time and back date his NEW hire date with his previous time with the company as credit. I think I'd be ticked as an employee if I was hired one day after that college student and had stayed with the company continuously while he was gone for 10 years. Then he comes back and gets his original hire date and could bump me? Yes, that is probably an extreme example you are using, though.

I'm guessing that is what they mean by time in service. Certain things are exempt I believe such as COLAs (in lieu of furlough) and MIL service.