Q. I read on your site that leave without pay under six months in a calendar year counts as creditable service. But I also read where it doesn’t count toward the retirement calculation. I am CSRS but only have 19 years of law enforcement officer status as of June 10, 2014. Can I take a few months of LWOP in 2014 and 2015 and have this time count toward my 20-year LEO retirement computation if the LWOP is under six months in 2014 and under six months in 2015? Will the LWOP time under six months in each of these…
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Q. I was injured on duty as a government employee and forced to take leave without pay. I am told that I have 12 months of LWOP status before they can remove me from my position. I have been called into work on the clock several times during the past six months or so. Does my LWOP status date change each time I come in on the clock or does is remain the same? Usually, I was there about 2 hours for a meeting involving union talks in attempts to remove me because of my disability. Before I began LWOP…
Q. While a civilian employee with the Veterans Health Administration, my Army Reserve unit was activated and I stayed on leave without pay for more than four years while on active duty. I then returned to my civilian VHA job. I recently read that my LWOP status counts as half time toward retirement. 1. Is that true? 2. Would that mean I only have to buy back two of my four active-duty years to make it count toward civilian retirement?
Q. I am a federal firefighter on emergency leave due to an ill family member. Because my department did not approve my leave without pay for a second time within the year (the first one was approved for six months), my department is requiring that I return to Hawaii (I am in Los Angeles caring for my father). Why can’t I just resign by mail? Flying to Hawaii just to sign a couple of forms seems ridiculous to me — especially when it will cost me over $1,000 to do so, in addition to leaving my father alone without care.…
Q. I have been on sick leave most of the year. I have 205 hours of use-or-lose annual leave. Is my agency required to carry this over since I was unable to use the annual?
Q. My office has requested the Voluntary Early Retirement Authority/Voluntary Separation Incentive Pay. With the government shutdown, there has been a delay in the approval process. My position is one within the organization that has been approved for VSIP once the authority is received. I am a FERS employee, over 50, with 26 years of creditable service. I plan to exercise the early-out authority once received, after Jan. 1, 2014, so that I will receive 100 percent sick leave credit toward my annuity. In the meantime, I applied for and have been offered a position in the private sector. They…
Q. I have an occupational illness. It was not originally accepted, and my employer had me on leave without pay due to an inability for find work within my restrictions. The Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs has since accepted my claim, and my employer has found work for me. Now that my claim has been accepted and back compensation has been approved for that time, was I supposed to earn leave during the 10 months I was off and on OWCP due to employer inability to find work within my restrictions?
Q. Is it legal for an employee to be forced to take leave without pay before using his or her annual or sick leave for being late for work? Supervisors are not allowing the use of sick or annual hours for being late.
Q. I am 17-year 1811 and would like to take a personal leave of absence for up to six months. I have also bought back my 11 years of military service. Can I request leave without pay for up to 12 weeks without using my balance of annual and/or sick leave? Is there language where the Office of Personnel Management or my agency, Customs and Border Protection, talks about a leave of absence in lieu of LWOP? I have looked and cannot find how to start the process.
Q. I was reviewing my creditable service for retirement and was wondering about the calculation. During the first two years of my federal career (started Jan. 10, 1993), I was in a position that was not covered by FERS but covered by FICA. While in that position, I was in a leave-without-pay status for four months. My agency has given me service credit toward retirement for the time I was in LWOP status because it was less than six months. Does this sound correct?