LEAVE-TRANSFER EXTENSION CLEARS CONGRESS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP89T00234R000100130002-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 23, 2012
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: October 13, 1988
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/08/23: CIA-RDP89T00234R000100130002-1
Leave-Transfer Extension Clears Congress
By Don Phillips
Washington Post Staff Writer
, The House voted yesterday to
extend for five years the leave-
transfer program that allows fed-
eral workers to give annual leave to
fellow workers with family or med-
ical emergencies who have used up
all their vacation time or sick leave.
A new experimental "leave bank"
is also authorized by the bill, under
which workers may contribute to a
pool of leave time that could be used
by fellow workers in emergencies.
The bill, passed earlier by the
Senate, cleared the House, by voice
tote an4yent to the Whitt House.
The leave-transfer program has
been in effect for about a year, and
technically expired at the end of
September. Under the plan, a work-
er must certify that he or she has a
family or medical emergency that
requires time away from work, but
has used all annual leave and sick
time. The employing. agency may
require certification from doctors
or other specialists.
Donating employees may not do-
? nate more than half their accumu-
lated annual leave hours.
The legislation exempts the
leave-transfer ,nrogram from laws
banning gifts tc ,:i.iperiors, allowing
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them to accept leave from employ-
ees they supervise.
The plan is government-wide, al-
lowing workers in one agency to do-
nate to workers in another. But the
Central Intelligence Agency and oth-
er federal intelligence agencies would
be exempted from the government-
wide transfer program, although they
would be required .to establish their
own leave-transfer programs.
Under the neW experimental
leave-hank program, the Office of
Personnel Management must estab-
lish a program under which any
worker could contribute leave into a
central fund Ova would be available
for other workei s with emergencies.
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/08/23 : CIA-RDP89T00234R000100130002-1