Washington, D.C. 20530
December 15, 2003
MEMORANDUM FOR BUREAU HUMAN RESOURCES OFFICERS
FROM: Debra M. Tomchek
Director, Human Resources
SUBJECT: Pay and Leave Instructions for December 26, 2003
President Bush has excused most executive branch Federal employees from duty on December 26, 2003, and directed that the day be treated as a holiday for pay and leave purposes. Attached for your information are the President's Executive Order and the implementing instructions prepared by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).
In previous years when the President ordered that a non-holiday should be designated as a holiday, we found that the following points were of interest:
- Employees who have previously scheduled December 26, 2003, as a day of "use or lose" annual leave will forfeit that annual leave unless it can be rescheduled before the leave year ends on January 10, 2004 (there is no provision which allows such forfeited leave to be restored).
- Full-time employees whose basic work week does not include December 26, 2003, are entitled to an "in lieu of" holiday (generally on the preceding scheduled work day).
- Employees on a compressed work schedule (CWS) who do not work because of the holiday will receive their rate of basic pay for the number of hours in their CWS on the holiday.
- To prevent adverse agency impact, management officials who have delegated authority to approve a CWS also have delegated authority to reschedule an "in lieu of" holiday for full-time employees on CWS (5 U.S.C. 6103 (d)(2)).
- Time keepers should enter transaction code 66 on time sheets for December 26, 2003. Transaction code 66 covers other leave, including Federal holidays.
Additional information may be found in the following fact sheets on the OPM web site:
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