[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 20, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 20CFR204.3]

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                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
                  CHAPTER II--RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD
 
PART 204_EMPLOYMENT RELATION--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 204.3  Employment relation--prior service.

    An individual shall have an employment relation to an employer on 
August 29, 1935, for purposes of crediting service prior to January 1, 
1937, if:
    (a) He or she was in the service of an employer on that date; or
    (b) He or she was on that date on 1eave of absence expressly granted 
by the employer or by a duly authorized representative of such employer, 
but only if such leave of absence was established to the satisfaction of 
the Board before July 1947; or
    (c) He or she was in the service of an employer after that date and 
before January 1946, in each of six calendar months, whether or not 
consecutive; or
    (d) Before that date he or she did not retire and was not retired or 
discharged from the service of the last

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employer by whom he or she was employed, but solely by reason of a 
physical or mental disability he or she ceased before August 29, 1935, 
to be in the service of such employer and thereafter remained 
continuously disabled until he or she attained age sixty-five or until 
August 1945; or
    (e) Solely for the reason stated in paragraph (c) of this section an 
employer by whom he or she was employed before August 29, 1935, did not 
on or after August 29, 1935, and before August 1945, call him or her to 
return to service, or if he or she were called to return to service he 
or she for such reason was unable to render service in six calendar 
months as provided in paragraph (b) of this section; or
    (f) He or she was on August 29, 1935, absent from the service of an 
employer by reason of a discharge which, within one year after the 
effective date thereof, was protested to an appropriate labor 
representative or to the employer, as wrongful, and which was followed 
within ten years of the effective date thereof by his or her 
reinstatement in good faith to his or her former service with all his or 
her seniority rights.