Time Off Order Raises Leave, Scheduling Issues

OPM meanwhile has issued a memo on various leave and work scheduling considerations that repeats long-standing practice in such situations. It says that: most employees who are excused from duty will receive the basic pay they would have received if they had worked; an employee who was previously scheduled to take annual leave on that day generally will not be charged annual leave or any other form of paid leave, compensatory time off, or credit hours (that does not apply to employees who receive annual premium pay for standby duty under or to certain firefighters); an employee who is required to work non-overtime hours that day is entitled to holiday premium pay; and if an employee has scheduled “use or lose” annual leave for that day and is unable to reschedule that leave for use before the end of the leave year (for most employees, January 10, 2015), the leave will be forfeited.