Browsing: use-or-lose leave

Q. I’m being placed on administrative leave by a federal agency (USDA, FSIS) pending an Equal Employment Opportunity complaint proposal for removal. I have use-or-lose leave. Do I have to use it since I am on involuntary leave? I’m not able to find any guidelines on such a matter. Can you please provide me with a federal regulation? A. You’ll find the guidance on annual leave at www.opm.gov/flsa/oca/leave/html/ANNUAL.asp. Just scroll to the section titled “Use or Lose Annual Leave.” Then click on the highlighted words “restoration of annual leave” to find the circumstances under which forfeited annual leave can be…

Q. I am a CSRS employee who has applied for immediate retirement on Aug. 31. I currently have 310 days annual leave; 165 use-or-lose hours; 67 sick leave hours. What will be paid and what will not be paid? If I am denied to take leave or comp time because of mission demands, what will be the result for the time accumulated? A. Unused annual leave will be projected forward as though you were still on the rolls and paid at the hourly rate in effect at that that time. Any unused compensatory time will be paid at the overtime…

Q. I work for the Department of Energy and plan on retiring at the end of 2012. I will have 427 hours of annual leave and 187 of use-or-lose leave. Will I be paid for the total of 614 hours at retirement? A. Since the 2012 leave year ends Jan. 12, 2013, the answer is yes.

Q: I want to retire Jan. 1, 2012. will I lose my 240 hours of accumulated leave? What is the use-or-lose date for 2011? A: In 2011, the leave year ends Dec. 31. However, even if you retire after that date, you won’t lose your 240 hours of annual leave; that’s the number of hours you can carry over from one year to the next. If you retire after Dec. 31, you would lose any hours of annual leave in excess of 240. Those are your use-or-lose hours.

Q: For retirement purposes my date of “separation” is planned to be Jan. 1, 2011. I chose this date so that I would accrue leave for the last pay period. I am, however, concerned if I will lose my “use or lose” leave balance if I retire/separate on Jan. 1, 2011, as opposed to Dec. 31, 2010. A: Don’t be concerned. You can either retire at the close of business on Dec. 31, 2010 or on Jan. 1, 2011, which is the end of the leave year, and get paid for the leave you accrued in the last pay period.…

Q: If I retire Jan. 31, 2012, what happens to my use-or-lose leave, since the leave year ends Dec. 31, 2011? A: The answer should be obvious. If you retire after the end of the leave year, any annual leave you have that exceeds the annual limit is lost. That’s why it’s called “use or lose” leave.

Q: I plan to retire Jan. 3. At the end of this year, I will still have 40 hours of “use or lose” leave. Will I be paid for that leave in my final lump-sum annual leave payment, or will I forfeit this leave? A: In 2011, the leave year end date is Jan. 1. If you retire after that date, any unused annual leave in excess of 240 hours would be lost. You would receive a lump-sum payment for those 240 hours.

Q: I am at an activity that was to be realigned and relocated from California to Virginia. The realignment was completed, and the relocation is in process. I will be relocating to Virginia in the first week of January, prior to the end of the leave year. Will my use-or-lose annual leave hours, as of my relocation date, be restored under 5 U.S.C. 6304(d)(3)? A: If you accompany your organization to its new duty location. you will receive a lump-sum payment for hours in excess of the 240 at the time of your move and will no longer be eligible…