Q. My brother just retired from a civilian job with the Army. He had about 130 hours of use- or-lose leave which was good until the end of this year that he thought would be included with his lump-sum leave payment. However, the local HR office did not include it and says that because he didn’t use it, it is just lost. Does he have any recourse? A. If what he had was regular earned leave in excess of 240 hours that hadn’t expired, the way some restored annual leave or comp time does, then what he was told was nonsense.…
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Q: As a federal civil service employee in the Defense Department, I usually have several days of use/lose annual leave at the end of the year. Rather than taking off almost the entire month of December to avoid losing accrued annual leave, am I allowed to sell back the unused leave? A: There is no provision in law that would allow you to be paid for unused annual leave that exceeds the carryover amount from one leave year to the next.