3 FAH-1
H-3300
LEAVE ADMINISTRATION
3 FAH-1 H-3310
lEAVE
(CT:POH-218; 05-17-2019)
(Office of Origin: HR/ER/WLD)
3 FAH-1 H-3311
DEFINITIONS
(CT:POH-218;
05-17-2019)
(Uniform State/USAID/USAGM/Commerce/Foreign Service Corps - USDA)
(Applies to Foreign Service and Civil Service Employees)
For purposes of Chapters 3 FAM 3300, 3 FAM 3400, and 3 FAM
3500, and Chapters 3
FAH-1 H-3300, 3
FAH-1 H-3400, and 3
FAH-1 H-3500, the following definitions apply:
Accrued leave: Leave earned by an employee
during the current leave year that is unused at any given time in that year.
Accumulated leave: The unused leave
remaining to the credit of an employee at the beginning of a leave year. For
purposes of lump-sum payment, accumulated leave means the regular carryover
balance from the previous leave year, and unused annual leave accrued during
the then current leave year, plus any unused restored annual leave maintained
in a special leave account.
Approving officer: Any officer-in-charge,
or designee, who has general responsibility for the proper administration of
leave regulations as they pertain to employees under that officers
jurisdiction.
Decision officer: The official designated
by the head of the Agency to determine that an exigency of the public business
or administrative error or sickness of the employee, when the annual leave was
requested and approved in advance, caused forfeiture of scheduled annual leave,
and to authorize its restoration for later use. (For USAID, ADS 480.)
Exigency of the public business: An
operational demand beyond the control of an agency, which could be sudden or
could be anticipated and of such importance as to preclude:
(1) The use of scheduled annual leave; and
(2) Any reasonable alternative to the cancellation of
scheduled leave.
Headquarters: The Washington headquarters
of the Department of State, Broadcasting Board of Governors, the Agency for
International Development, the Foreign Agricultural Service and the Animal and
Plant Health Inspection Service of the Department of Agriculture, and the
Department of Commerce, as appropriate.
Leave laws: 5 U.S.C. 6301-6311.
Leave year: The period from the beginning
of the first complete pay period in the calendar year to the beginning of the
first complete pay period in the following calendar year.
Missing status: The status of an employee
who is officially carried or determined to be absent in a status of missing,
missing in action, interned in a foreign country, captured, beleaguered or
besieged by a hostile force, or detained in a foreign country against the
employees will; but does not include the status of an employee for a period
during which the employee is officially determined to be absent from post of
duty without authority.
Part-time employee: An employee for whom
there has been established in advance a regularly scheduled workweek of 16 to
32 hours per week except as noted in 5 CFR 340, Subpart B.
Possessions: The possessions of the United
States, including the Virgin Islands of the United States, Guam, the
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa.
Restored annual leave: Any scheduled
annual leave which could not be used by an employee due to an exigency of the
public business, administrative error (including failure to reschedule the
leave by the official who cancelled it), or sickness of the employee, and which
was forfeited and subsequently approved for re-crediting by a decision officer.
Scheduled annual leave: Leave requested
and approved in advance in writing on Form DS-7100, Request for Leave or
Approved Absence, for use at specified periods of time.
United States: The 50 States and the
District of Columbia.
3 FAH-1 H-3312
COMMUNICATIONS REGARDING LEAVE
(CT:POH-218;
05-17-2019)
(Uniform State/USAID/USAGM/Commerce/Foreign Service Corps - USDA)
(Applies to Foreign Service and Civil Service Employees)
Inquiries concerning leave policies, interpretations and
clarification of regulations should be addressed to:
- State: Bureau of Human Resources, Office of Employee Relations
(HR/ER/EP)
- USAID: Office of Human Resources, Policy, Planning, and
Information Management Division (M/HR/PPIM)
- Commerce: Office of Foreign Service Human Resources
- USDA/FAS: HRD/FSA (see 3 FASR 63 on Leave Administration)
- USDA/APHIS: IS/RMS, Personnel
- USAGM: Office of Personnel
(M/P) (See also MOA Part V-B, Section 680)
3 FAH-1 H-3313
LEAVE PROCEDURES
(CT:POH-218;
05-17-2019)
(Uniform State/USAID/USAGM/Commerce/Foreign Service Corps - USDA)
(Applies to Foreign Service and Civil Service Employees)
For information regarding leave procedures, refer to the
following references:
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SECTION
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TITLE
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3 FAH-1 H 3320
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Officers Exempted from Leave Act
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3 FAH-1 H 3330
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Disposition of Leave Balances
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3 FAH-1 H 3360
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Emergency Leave Transfer Program
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3 FAH-1 H 3410
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Annual Leave
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3 FAH-1 H 3420
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Sick Leave
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3 FAH-1 H 3430
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Home Leave
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3 FAH-1 H 3440
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Military
Leave
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3 FAH-1 H 3460
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Other Paid Leave
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3 FAH-1 H 3510
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Leave Without Pay (LWOP)
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3 FAH-1 H 3520
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Absence Without Leave (AWOL)
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3 FAH-1 H-3314
THROUGH H-3319 UNASSIGNED