§ 44845 Employee Service Date Rule

• •If you work in a probationary or permanent job after June 30, 1947, your start date is the first day you got paid in that job.
• •This rule was updated in 1977 but still applies to jobs started after 1947.
• •It doesn’t matter if you were in training or on probation—your start date is when you first got paid.

You start a new job on July 1, 2023, as a probationary worker and get your first paycheck on July 15, 2023.

Your official start date for the job is July 1, 2023, because that’s when you first did paid work, even if you were still in probation.