Employee Termination Date

Question:  Is the employee's termination date the last of active employment or the first day of non-employment?  

For example:  I worked on 1/31/2023 is that my termination date? or is 2/1/23 termination date?

Let's start with generally the employee's termination date is the last day of active employment.

Generally, because things like weekends, holidays, vacations, PTO and leaves of absence where employee does not perform any hours of service can complicate matters.  Similarly, payroll practices such as salaried, hourly, and per diem among others also can complicate matters.

Without going into all of the details for each situation, the employer and the plan need to have a policy on how each of these things will be applied in determining an employee's termination date, and that policy should be applied in a uniform and consistent manner.

There have been some prior discussion threads on this topic.  I suggest using the Search box (upper right) with the term "last day worked".