Taxable Year and Admin Leave 12/24/96

To: "E  - All WRD Employees"<distribution>
cc: "David C Madril, Acting Admin Officer, Reston, VA" <dcmadril>
Subject: Taxable Year and Admin Leave 12/24/96
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Date: Thu, 02 Jan 1997 10:28:35 -0500
From: "David C Madril, Acting Admin Officer, Reston, VA" <dcmadril>

A good number of questions have been asked regarding both
subject items.  Hopefully this message will answer your
questions, create new questions, or confuse you altogether.
Here goes!

The last pay period for tax purposes ended 12/7/96. This
is pay you received on 12/19/96.

There are 27 pay periods in tax year 1997. PP01 begins
12/8/96 and ends on 12/20/97 with PP27.  Employees will 
be paid for PP27 on WEDNESDAY, 12/31/97, a day early 
because the normal payday of 1/1/98, is a holiday. Since  
it will be received in calendar year 1997. it is taxable.

Personnel who were working a normal duty day on 12/24/96
and were excused at 1:00 pm are to use hours code 060
(admin leave) for any scheduled work period they would
have worked after that time, i.e., those coming in at
6:30 am would get 2 hours of admin leave, those coming
in at 9:00 am would get 4 1/2 hours of admin leave.

Those employees who were creative and jump started their
admin leave by taking annual leave are charged only for
those hours of annual leave taken prior to 1:00 pm so long
as they physically present for duty on 12/24/96. Those that
were on annual leave prior to 1:00.  Again, you must have
been physically present for duty prior to 1:00 pm during 
12/24/96 to eligible for admin leave.

Personnel were excused from duty on 12/31/96 at 2:00 pm
local time.  This was an "unofficial" excusal from the
Director and will be treated as normal duty (hours code 010)
for payroll reporting.  Those personnel taking leave that 
day will be charged for that leave.  Only those personnel 
physically present for duty on 12/31/96 were "unofficially"
excused.