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Our agencies offer a wide variety flexible work schedules that will enable you to balance your work life, personal life, and the needs of your family. Maxiflex is one of our most popular flexible work options, it enables our full-time employees to work 80 hours biweekly on ten or fewer workdays. An employee on maxiflex may request at least 1 nonworkday biweekly. While there are core work hours that must be worked, you will be allowed to vary your arrival and departure times. Working a flexible work schedule allows employees to voluntarily work extra hours for credit time which can be used later to take paid time off from work. See Notices below for more details:
- PM2466 - For FSA and RMA National Office Nonbargaining Unit Employees
- PM2369 - For FSA Field Office Nonbargaining Unit Employees
Another work schedule option is a compressed work schedule (CWS). The arrival and departure times are a set time each day, but the employee is entitled to 1 nonworkday every 2 weeks on a 5-4/9 CWS. National Office employees may request a 4-10 CWS, which allows 1 nonworkday each work week. Employees working a CWS may request to earn compensatory time for hours worked in excess of their scheduled daily work hours or they may request overtime. Accumulated compensatory time can later be used for paid time-off from work. All work schedules must be approved by the employee's supervisor.
Family Friendly Leave encompasses a number of paid and unpaid leave. These options include:
- AD-1043 - Leave Transfer Donor Application
- AD-1046 - Leave Transfer Recipient Application
- OPM-630a - Donate Annual Leave to Leave Recipient Under the Voluntary Leave Transfer Program
The Leave Bank allows employees to become members of the FFAS leave bank by donating leave. The leave is pooled and managed by a Leave Bank Board. If a LB member or a member of their family experiences an extended medical emergency, they may qualify to become a recipient of paid leave from the LB. (Headquarters Employees Only at this time.) See Notice below for more details:
- FFAS Leave Bank - Open Enrollment
Once you have completed the FFAS-1043 or FFAS-1146, FAX the signed copy to (202) 205-9140 (fax), if you have questions about Leave Bank policy you may call Susan Brown at (202) 401-0066.
The Family and Medical Leave Act allows employees up to 12 work weeks of leave without pay (LWOP) to recover from a extended personal medical condition or care for a family members with a serious medical condition. For more details: ( 17-PM, part 10, section 2)
Employees may use their own earned sick leave to care for a family member with a serious health condition or to accompany a family member to medical appointments. There are also advanced sick leave allowances for employees with minimal sick leave balances. SLFC may also be used to make funeral arrangements and attend the funeral of a family member. For more details: ( 17-PM, part 10, section 3)
Earned or advanced sick leave may be used for child adoption activities. This includes legal matters, travel, and meeting with adoption agency or in-country adoption officials. For more details: ( 17-PM, part 10, section 4)
If you are a bone marrow donor, you are entitled to an excused absence (paid leave) for up to 7 workdays to cover medical activities related to the donation.
If you are an organ donor, you are entitled to an excused absence (paid leave) for up to 30 workdays to cover medical activities and recovery.
Timekeepers can use the attached Leave Error Checklists to help understand the leave error report and correct leave errors. Corrections should be submitted with an explanation of the error to HRD/Employee Programs Branch, Stop Code 0595.
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