Employee Benefits              

Alternative Work Schedules

The NTSB offers a variety of flexible work schedules that will help you to balance your work life, personal life, and the needs of your family. In addition to the traditional workweek of 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday, employees can receive approval to work an alternative schedule.  Depending on organizational goals and operational requirements, employees may receive approval for a flexible schedule that allows them to work an 8-hour non-traditional tour, or either of two compressed work schedules.

Family Friendly Leave Policies

Family Friendly Workplace leave policies encompass a number of paid and unpaid leave options.  These include:

• Family and Medical Leave (FMLA) - 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 member with a serious medical condition.
• Leave Donor Program - The NTSB Leave Donor Program helps employees who are experiencing a medical emergency and who have exhausted all of their available leave.  They can receive donations of annual leave from fellow employees to help ease financial hardships that would be caused by being forced to take extended leave without pay or resigning their jobs.
• Sick Leave for Family Care - Employees may use their own earned sick leave up to 104 hours annually to care for a family member with a serious health condition or to accompany a family member to medical appointments.  Sick leave may also be used to make funeral arrangements and attend the funeral of a family member.
• Sick Leave for Adoptions - Sick leave may be used for child adoption activities. This includes legal matters, travel, and meeting with adoption agency officials.

Telework

Under the agency’s Telework Program, eligible employees may receive approval to work from home on a full-time or part-time basis depending on the nature of their duties and assigned responsibilities.  Full-time teleworkers perform all of their duties out of their home offices, while part-time teleworkers split their duty time between a home office and an agency office at a designated geographic location.