Employee & Labor Relations
The handbook covering Employee Relations
What is VA Handbook 5021?
An earned benefit where the right to use is subject to supervisor’s right to schedule and granting or denying is based on workload and staffing only and whether employee can be spared.
What is annual leave?
To become this an employee must demonstrate that he or she will be absent from duty without available paid leave for at least 24 hours because of a medical emergency
What is a leave recipient?
Results when the employee is absent from duty or assigned work area without appropriate supervisory approval
What is AWOL?
The meaning of the acronym "FMLA"
What is Family Medical Leave Act?
The handbook covering hours of duty and leave
What is VA Handbook 5011?
If an employee falls ill while on annual leave, this may be substituted for the day(s) on which the employee was ill, provided appropriate and acceptable documentation is submitted.
What is Sick Leave?
Provides an opportunity for employees who have exhausted their annual and sick leave and who are facing a medical emergency to apply for and receive donations of leave from other Federal employees.
What is Voluntary Leave Transfer Program?
An employee may use an unlimited number of sick leave hours for purposes related to
What is the adoption of a child?
Employees that have completed at least how many months of federal civilian service (which is not required to be consecutive or met at the same agency) are entitled to a total of up to 12 workweeks of unpaid leave during any 12-month period
What is 12 months?
This type of leave which is not used during the 12-month eligibility period may not be carried over to subsequent years and is forfeited
What is Disabled Veteran Leave?
Up to 104 Hours each leave year for family member’s incapacitation, examination, treatment, or funeral
What is sick leave?
The application used to apply for VLTP
What is OPM 630?
A temporary non-pay and non-duty status granted at the employee’s request.
What is Leave Without Pay?
Employee must provide these many days of advance notice of the intent to take FMLA leave and if advance notice is not possible, employee must provide as much notice as is practicable
What is 30 days?
A one-time benefit provided to an eligible employee hired on or after November 5, 2016
What is Disabled Veteran Leave?
Instance when there is no entitlement to use sick leave
What is incarceration?
This may be substituted retroactively for periods of leave without pay or used to liquidate a debt for advanced annual or sick leave granted on or after a date fixed by the agency as the beginning of the period of the medical emergency for which leave without pay or advance annual or sick leave was granted.
What is donated leave?
These individuals generally do not get credit for annual leave accrual purposes for their service.
What are military retirees?
These employees can receive up to 16 workweeks of unpaid leave for maternity/paternity reasons Article 35 Section 16(A)
What is AFGE employees?
This type of leave should not be granted to an employee when it is known that the employee will retire or be separated before the amount advanced can be earned, or when it is reasonable to expect that the employee will not return to duty
What is advanced annual leave?
This type of leave is not limited to 13 days and does not count towards the annual 13-day limit for general family care and bereavement purposes
What is sick leave for adoption-related purposes?
An employee may apply for and receive donated annual leave while their application for this is being processed
What is disability retirement?
FMLA
Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Act of 1994
Disabled veterans need for medical treatment
Receiving workers’ compensation payments from the Department of Labor
What are entitlements to LWOP?
An employee may elect to substitute what for any or all unpaid leave under the FMLA
What is accrued/advanced annual or sick leave or annual leave donated under the Voluntary Leave Transfer Program (VLTP)?