What it is?

Experience is the periods of time, days, weeks and years that a person devoted to work. An employment contract, an entry in the Book, all the necessary formalities must be strictly observed, because only this indicates that every penny of insurance contributions for a person must be transferred to the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation; it “drips” into the personal account of the future recipient.

In this way, a certain amount was accumulated, which at the “age of survival”, or simply put, retirement age, or after an illness, injury from which it is impossible to fully recover, a monthly provision is paid

The total duration of activity, both labor and socially useful, which is called seniority, has the most direct impact on the amount of temporary disability benefits and pension benefits.

What happens?

General

The total length of service includes periods when a person worked, was insured by the Pension Fund of Russia, served, or was an individual entrepreneur. Federal Law “On pensions in the Russian Federation” in Art. 30 particularly highlights this type of length of service: it is used to determine the rights to a pension secured by the recipient. Days or years of labor, work for society are calculated literally according to the calendar. In addition, the total experience of some individual representatives includes creative time.

The following are recognized as separate periods and counted in the total length of service:

• years of creativity for writers, artists, musicians, those who worked for trade unions that unite people of unusual professions;
• soldiers and officers, when the time of military service is counted;
• periods of illness when a person could not work for health reasons and doctors confirm this with their documents with signatures and seals;
• the period when a person was recognized as a disabled person of groups I or II;
• the time when a person received benefits as an unemployed person.

Insurance

The insurance period is a relatively new concept; it is what gives the right to a labor pension. In Article 2 of the Federal Law “On Labor Pensions,” this length of service is defined as the periods during which insurance contributions to the Pension Fund were paid. They can be paid by the employer, but, in accordance with Article 29 of the Federal Law “On Compulsory Pension Insurance,” a person can make contributions independently.

Special

Special experience is important for representatives of certain professions whose activities take place in certain conditions. These can be people who are engaged in “harmful” production, underground work, on geological expeditions, and also teach children in schools, treat children, and perform on the theater stage. A clear list of professions is given in articles and Federal Laws.

Special length of service is a period during which, for certain reasons, payments were not made to the Pension Fund. Otherwise, such length of service is called length of service, which is important for military personnel, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, prosecutors and citizens equated to these categories.

Continuous

For people born in the USSR, such concepts as continuous and interrupted work experience were extremely important.

Continuous experience is the period during which a person works at one enterprise, or changes jobs, but not by quitting, but by transferring to another place, or if the time from dismissal to subsequent employment was no more than 21 days. Continuous work experience is calculated according to the Rules for calculating such work experience (LC Article 423).

Why is it important?

Until 01.01. In 2007, almost all payments to mothers, sick, disabled people, and people who lost their jobs depended on such length of service. If you have worked for less than 5 years, do not expect benefits to be more than half your monthly salary. I interrupted my internship for an unexcused reason - the same thing. Only after 8 years of work in one place or by changing jobs not by dismissal, but by transferring to another place, you could provide yourself with a guaranteed 100% salary if you got sick, couldn’t work, or were caring for a small child.

Today, continuity of seniority has lost its former meaning, the concept itself is gradually becoming a thing of the past. Now the question of how long you can not work so that your work experience is not interrupted is no longer very relevant. Only in some organizations, where this is stipulated in the Charter, the duration of vacation, the amount of severance pay, bonuses, and other payments depend on the continuous period of work.

What length of service is taken into account when calculating sick leave?

For this purpose, you can either use special online programs or make the calculation yourself using a regular calculator. The main thing you need to focus your attention on is that you definitely need to convert days into months, and months into years. All you need is your work record and some rules:

1. Special – a period worked in a position with special working conditions, for example, work in the Far North, in industries with harmful effects.
2. Insurance – the total number of periods of a particular activity that provide for the presence of insurance contributions.
3. Continuous is a period of work in one, two or more organizations, if the work activity was not interrupted.
4. Total labor is the sum of all periods of professional activity. This type includes work under service contracts, as well as labor contracts. When calculating, entries in the work book and existing contracts are taken into account.

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Why is it needed?

The duration of work allows you to correctly and accurately determine the size of your future pension, which depends on the amount in the personal account of a person insured by the Pension Fund.

All citizens receive a social pension upon reaching a certain age. For men today it is 60 years old, for women – 55.

But this is also the age of those who have the right to count on insurance payments, a very substantial supplement to the social pension, which depends on length of service. The minimum length of service for a pension must be at least 7 years by this age. In the near future, this period is planned to be increased to 15 years.

But length of service affects a number of other payments. For example, its value affects payments for temporary disability and benefits. The higher it is, the higher the payout.

How to calculate length of service for sick leave

For example, if a person is officially employed at several enterprises at once, when receiving sick leave at the clinic, he should notify the attending physician or registrar about this. In this case, he is entitled to as many sick leaves as the number of companies he works for. However, it is important to make a note about which of their positions is the main one , since this is where he can count on additional material support .

Sometimes extremely unpleasant situations for the employer occur when an employee immediately goes from one sick leave to another. A reasonable question arises: how many people can be on sick leave without violating the Labor Code of the Russian Federation? By law, this period is strictly regulated and is limited to 12 months. However, it should be noted that the attending physician can issue a certificate of incapacity for work only for half a month, a dentist for 10 days, and if the employee is on sick leave for more than 15 days, then its extension is possible only by the decision of a specially convened medical commission.

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Duration of work and leaving work

In a number of organizations, continuous experience in accordance with the Charter plays an important role. Will it be interrupted upon dismissal, what affects this, how many days will it take?

Long service break

Work experience will be considered interrupted if:

• a person is fired by an employer for gross violations, absenteeism, rudeness, for failing to cope with responsibilities and disrupting everyone’s work schedule;
• stole something or caused serious damage to the company;
• if a month after dismissal the person has not found another job;
• having resigned voluntarily, did not find a job within 21 days;
• when leaving to get a job at an enterprise located in another area, the break in activity lasted more than 1 month, or a job was not found when moving due to the transfer of the spouse to work in another city, region, etc.

However, the length of service will be considered continuous under the following conditions:

1. the person resigned of his own free will for good reasons, as well as due to the liquidation of the enterprise or staff reduction;
2. the break is caused by moving to a new place of work or service;
3. upon dismissal or suspension from work illegally, due to an erroneous medical report, if the person was then reinstated at work;
4. the length of service was interrupted due to accusations of a crime, stay in prison, if the employee was subsequently acquitted and reinstated in his position.

Lawyers often advise that in order to increase the number of days when you can not work, but the length of service will remain uninterrupted, you should not just quit, but take a vacation with subsequent dismissal.

How many days are considered continuous when calculating at your own request?

So, after how long can the length of service between dismissal and placement in a new place be interrupted, what period is considered continuous? With such a dismissal, when a person himself submits an application without any reason, he needs to find a new job within 21 days; on the 22nd day the continuity comes to an end. But the period may be increased in this case as well.

For example, a woman quits because her husband is transferred to work or serve in another area, this is especially common for wives of military personnel and law enforcement officers.

In Soviet times, it was very important to know after how long the length of service was interrupted. After all, then a lot depended on continuous length of service , and no matter how many years in a row you worked in production, if the length of service was interrupted even for a day, then you had to start saving for your 8 years to receive 100% of payments all over again.

Therefore, for such cases, when one of the spouses protects law and order, “relaxations” were provided when the length of service was not interrupted, by increasing the period of employment by another 1 week, that is, up to 30 days. You could look for a job for the same amount of time if you had to change your job due to health conditions.

If staff were reduced or if the enterprise was liquidated, the period became even longer - 3 months.

For mothers of children under 14 years of age, the length of service upon dismissal due to layoffs and child care remains for years until the son or daughter reaches the specified age; for mothers of sick, disabled, children - until the child reaches adulthood.

How many days are not interrupted upon dismissal?

As such, the concept of “continuous work experience” does not exist today. The algorithm for calculating work experience has completely changed since 2007. Work experience is considered interrupted if a person changes jobs more than once a year.
Moreover, the length of service will be considered uninterrupted for 3 weeks if the employee quit of his own free will and during this time period got a job in another organization. If employees were dismissed due to staff reduction, the grace period during which the service will not be interrupted will be 3 months.

If the dismissal occurred by agreement of the parties, the employee will be given one month to find a new place of work and find employment. If the established deadlines are exceeded, the length of service will be considered interrupted.

Whether the length of service is interrupted upon dismissal at one's own request or not can be judged by taking into account the person's compliance with the deadlines established by law in each individual case.

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