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Effective October 27, 2005, Employee
and Labor Relations Manual (ELM) 513.1, Purpose, and 513.32, Conditions
for Authorization, are revised to differentiate sick leave taken for employee
incapacitation from sick leave taken for dependent care, and then to clarify
that leave taken for care of a qualifying family member, after a maximum
of 80 hours of sick leave, will be charged to annual leave, or to leave
without pay, at the employee's option.
513 Sick Leave
513.1 Purpose
[Revise 513.1 to read as follows:]
513.11 Sick Leave for Employee
Incapacitation
Sick leave insures employees against
loss of pay if they are incapacitated for the performance of duties because
of illness, injury, pregnancy and confinement, and medical (including
dental or optical) examination or treatment.
513.12 Sick Leave for Dependent
Care
A limited amount of sick leave may
also be used to provide for the medical needs of a family member. Nonbargaining
unit employees, and bargaining unit employees if provided in their national
agreements, are allowed to take up to 80 hours of their accrued sick leave
per leave year to give care or otherwise attend to a family member (as
defined in 515.2) with an illness, injury, or other condition that,
if an employee had such a condition, would justify the use of sick leave.
If leave for dependent care is approved, but the employee has already
used the maximum 80 hours of sick leave allowable, the difference is charged
to annual leave or to LWOP at the employee's option. (See 515 for
information about FMLA entitlement to be absent from work.)
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513.3 Authorizing Sick Leave
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513.32 Conditions for Authorization
[Revise the fourth entry of
the table in 513.32 to change the reference from 513.1 to 513.12 as follows:]
| Conditions
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| For eligible
employees (as indicated in 513.12), care for a family member
(as defined in 515.2). |
Up to 80 hours
of accrued sick leave per leave year if the illness, injury, or other
condition is one that, if an employee had such a condition, would
justify the use of sick leave. |
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We will incorporate these revisions
into the next printed version of the ELM and also into the online update,
available on the Postal ServiceTM PolicyNet Web site:
• Go to http://blue.usps.gov.
• Under "Essential Links"
in the left-hand column, click on References.
• Under "References"
in the right-hand column, under "Policies," click on PolicyNet.
• Click on Manuals.
(The direct URL for the Postal Service
PolicyNet Web site is http://blue.usps.gov/cpim.)
It is also available on the Postal
Service Internet:
• Go to www.usps.com.
• Click on About
USPS & News, then Forms & Publications, then Postal
Periodicals and Publications, and then Manuals.
— Compensation,
Employee Resource Management, 10-27-05
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