Calculating your long service date
Calculating your long service or employment milestone date will include your regular, temporary and term work. Guidelines for this date are as follows:
- All regular employees will receive a Long Service Award date that will include temporary/term work.
- The Long Service Award (LSA) date will be the first temporary/term start date in any jurisdiction held by the employee, unless there has been a break of 24 months or greater between temporary/term/ appointments with no earnings of any type. Then the LSA date will be the start date of the first of the temporary/term appointment held after such a break.
- An employee who retires and returns as a regular employee will maintain their original LSA date as long as there has not been a break of 24 months since retirement.
- Long service milestones are celebrated after the calendar year in which they were achieved. For instance, if your long service date was achieved anywhere from January 1/23 to December 31/23, you would be honoured in 2024.
For questions or more information, contact HR@viu.ca