Common use of Continuous Service Defined Clause in Contracts

Continuous Service Defined. Continuous service" means continuous regularly benefited employment from the employee's last date of hire with the Zoo. For those employees who were hired by the City of Seattle in the positions covered by this Agreement at Woodland Park Zoo and who have been continuously employed in those positions "date of hire" means the date they were hired full or part-time, but not intermittent, by the City of Seattle. Continuous service credit continues to accrue when an employee is on an approved leave of absence for up to six (6) months. Regularly benefited part-time employees earn continuous service credit on a pro-rata basis. Employees hired by the Zoo on a temporary or seasonal basis do not accrue continuous service credit.