The American Federation of Government Employees has created
a website to help employees file claims arising out of a
decision in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal
Circuit allowing federal civilian Department of Defense
employees who belonged to the Guard and Reserves to file
a claim with their agencies to have their leave corrected.
AFGE says that from 1980 on, civilian employees were
illegally charged leave for non-work days (weekends and
holidays) when calculating how much military leave employees
took, a practice declared illegal by the court in 2000.
Under the decision – Butterbaugh v. Department of Justice,
336 F.3d 1332, Fed. Cir. 2003 — employees have to meet
three conditions to be eligible to file a claim: They must
have been federal civilian employee during some period of
time between 1980 and the end of 2000, a member of the
reserve or National Guard, and attended reserve or National
Guard training while employed as a federal civilian employee.
The union website is at http://www.afge.org/MilitaryLeave.
