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Are there absences from Covered Employment which do not count toward a Break-in-Service?

If you are absent from Covered Employment for any of the following reasons, such absences will not count against you in determining if you have incurred a Break-in-Service:

  1. Qualified military service;
  2. Pregnancy, birth of a child, or care of a child during the period immediately following the birth or placement for adoption.  Credited Service will be provided under the Plan for the year the absence begins, or in the following year, up to 501 hours if the crediting is necessary to avoid a Break-in-Service;
  3. Authorized strikes; and
  4. Lockouts