Section 6-B1009. UNIVERSAL LEAVE

 

1009.1An employee appointed on or after January 2, 1999 without a break in service from another position in the District government to serve in an acting or interim capacity in an Executive Service position shall not become subject to the provisions of this section until confirmation by the Council and promulgation of the Mayor’s Order appointing him or her to the Executive Service position, whereupon applicability of this section shall become effective as of the date specified by Mayor’s Order as the effective date of that appointment.

 

1009.2Each Executive Service employee shall have a universal leave account.

 

1009.3On the first pay period of the leave year, each individual shall have his or her universal leave account credited with two-hundred eight (208) hours of universal leave.

 

1009.4Except as provided in Subsection 1009.5 of this section, each full biweekly pay period represents eight (8) hours of accrued universal leave.

 

1009.5Each Executive Service employee appointed after the first pay period of the leave year shall have his or her leave account credited with universal leave on a pro rata basis.

 

1009.6An Executive Service employee who initially enters on duty on any workday of a biweekly pay period shall receive credit for the entire biweekly pay period for purpose of crediting universal leave.

 

1009.7Universal leave provided by this chapter shall be used on days on which an Executive Service employee would otherwise work and receive pay and shall be exclusive of official holidays and non-workdays estab­lished by statute or administrative order.

 

1009.8There shall be no charge to universal leave for absences of less than two (2) hours.

 

1009.9An Executive Service employee may carry over not more than forty (40) hours of unused universal leave for use in succeeding years.  All other unused leave shall be forfeited at the end of the leave year.

 

1009.10Upon separation, an Executive Service employee shall be paid for any universal leave remaining to his or her credit (less a pro-rated amount representing the portion of the universal leave that would be creditable for the remainder of the year).

 

1009.11Payment for leave upon separation from the Executive Service as provided in Subsection 1009.10 of this section shall be at the employee’s rate of pay at the time of separation.

 

1009.12Except as provided in Subsection 1009.14 of this section, each employee who was in the Executive Service on or before January 2, 1999 shall have his or her accrued annual leave balance, up to a maximum of two hundred forty (240) hours, transferred to an annual leave escrow account for use at the discretion of the employee until exhausted.

 

1009.13The employee shall be given a lump-sum payment for any annual leave in excess of the leave transferred pursuant to Subsection 1009.12 of this section, payable at the rate of pay in effect on the last day of the last pay period of the 1998 leave year. 

 

1009.14Each employee appointed without a break in service to a position in the Executive Service from another position in the District government on or after October 21, 1998 shall have his or her accrued annual leave balance, up to a maximum of two hundred forty (240) hours, transferred to an annual leave escrow account for use at the discretion of the employee until exhausted.

 

1009.15 The employee shall be given a lump-sum payment for any annual leave in excess of the leave transferred pursuant to Subsection  1009.14 of this section, payable at the rate of pay in effect immediately before his or her appointment to the Executive Service.

 

1009.16Upon separation, an Executive Service employee shall be paid for any annual leave remaining in the annual leave escrow account.

 

1009.17Sick leave credit of an Executive Service employee that was accrued under § 1203(j) of the CMPA (D.C. Official Code § 1-612.03(j) (2012 Repl.)) shall be held in a sick leave escrow account and may be used at the discretion of the employee until exhausted.  

 

1009.18Any balance remaining in a sick leave escrow account at the time of retirement of an Executive Service employee under the U.S. Civil Service Retirement System (Chapter 83 of Title 5 of the U.S. Code) or the Police and Fire Retirement System (D.C. Official Code §§ 5-701 et seq. (2012 Repl.)) shall be available for use as additional service credit under the provisions of the applicable retirement system.

 

1009.19When an employee elects to use leave from either the annual leave escrow account or the sick leave escrow account, such usage shall only be charged for absences of more than two (2) hours. 

 

 

authority

Mayor’s Order 2008-92, dated June 26, 2008, and in accordance with Title XX of the District of Columbia Government Comprehensive Merit Personnel Act of 1978 (CMPA), effective March 3, 1979 (D.C. Law 2-139; D.C. Official Code §§ 1-610.51 et seq. (2013 Supp.)); the District of Columbia Government Comprehensive Merit Personnel Amendment Act of 2012 (Act), effective March 14, 2012 (D.C. Law 19-115; 59 DCR 461 (January 27, 2012)); and the Executive Service Compensation Act of 2011 (Act), effective February 24, 2012 (D.C. Law 19-83; 58 DCR 11024 (March 23, 2012)).

source

Final Rulemaking published at 47 DCR 4435 (May 26, 2000); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 47 DCR 6224 (August 4, 2000); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 50 DCR 4254 (May 30, 2003); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 51 DCR 9017 (September 17, 2004); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 61 DCR 8761 (August 22, 2014).