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Lump-Sum Payment for Annual Leave

B-200243 Apr 22, 1981
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A decision was requested as to what rate of pay should be applied to the computation of lump-sum annual leave of a federal employee who had transferred to an international organization. At the time of his transfer, the employee elected to retain all accumulated and current accrued annual leave to which he was then entitled and which would otherwise have been liquidated by a lump-sum payment. He subsequently requested a lump-sum payment for his retained annual leave. As a result of these actions, it was asked whether the employee was entitled to have his lump-sum annual leave payment computed at his rate of pay at the time of his transfer to the international organization or his established rate at the time of his request. The employee's lump-sum payment should be computed at the rate of pay attaching to his federal agency position at the time of his request and should include all established pay adjustments affecting his federal agency position during the intervening period from the date of his transfer to the date of his request. The computation of the lump-sum payment should equal the pay the employee would have received commencing with the day following his request until the expiration of the period of the annual leave. In the absence of contrary regulation, the date that the employee's request was received in the federal agency was sufficient to establish the employee's compliance with the provisions of the regulations.

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