Time-Off Award Information

To: "AO - All Administrative Officers"<distribution>,
        "Alice C Dilandro, Secretary (S), Reston, VA" <dilandro>,
        "Judith B Griffin, Secretary, Reston, VA" <jbgriff>,
        "Dorothy M Woods, Secretary (AO), Reston, VA" <dmwoods>,
        "Joanne C Taylor, Secretary (Typing), Reston, VA" <jctaylor>,
        "Janet N Arneson, Secretary (Typing), Reston, VA" <jarneson>,
        "Paula A McMahon, Secretary, Reston, VA" <pamcmah>,
        "Sarahnell L Laible, Secretary, Reston, VA" <sllaible>,
        "Mary J Amos, Secretary (OA), Reston, VA" <maamos>,
        "Nana L Frye, Secretary (OA), Reston, VA" <nlfrye>,
        "L. Jane Rose, Secretary, Reston, VA" <jrose>,
        "Georgia J Diersing, Secretary (T), Reston, VA" <gjdiersi>,
        "Melissa L Schomody, Secretary, Reston, VA" <mlschom>,
        "Linda D Rann, Human Rsrc Mgmt Spec, Reston, VA" <lrann>,
        "Connie L Smith, Human Resources Spec, Norcross, GA" <clsmith>,
        "Carole A Coburn, HR Management Specialist, Denver, CO" <ccoburn>,
        "Sharon L Doung, Human Resources Mgmt Spec., Menlo Park, CA" <sldoung>
cc: "Charlene T Simpson, Human Res. Mgmt. Specialist, Reston, VA" <ctsimpso>
From: "Charlene T Simpson, Human Res. Mgmt. Specialist, Reston, VA" <ctsimpso>
Subject: Time-Off Award Information
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 09:13:15 -0400
Sender: "Charlene T Simpson, Human Res. Mgmt. Specialist, Reston, VA" <ctsimpso>

FYI - HQ Personnel Office received a call recently re an employee who had not
had a chance to use a time off award and, after a year, the time off award
disappeared.  Under OPM's old regs (and ours), time off awards were only good
for one year.  If an employee didn't take the time off within a year, the 
employee lost it.  However, under 5 CFR 451, the requirement to use a time off
award within a year was eliminated when OPM revised its award regs in August
1995.  Thus, there is now no limit on how long an employee has to use a time
off award.

While Pay Pers at first did not get the word that time off awards no longer
expire, they have been notified of the changes and have agreed to make
corrections to the system in Pay Period 14.  At the same time, they will also
provide Personnel with a list of any employees who may have lost a time off
award because Pay Pers deleted it after one year.   

If you have employees who have erroneously lost a time off award they haven't
used, the timekeeper will have to reenter the award into the T&A system in
order for the employee to use it.  



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