BigTooona
Reserve AEDO
For any reservists on here that are also gov civilians, if you've ever been on long-term orders have you tried to claim holiday pay? I've been on ADOS for most of this FY and extending through next FY, and since it was voluntary I'm not eligible to claim pay differential.
I've heard of folks in this situation claiming holiday pay as long as they used leave before or after a federal holiday, and I brought it up to my HR folks months ago but they said since I was in a military furlough status I wasn't eligible. That being said, they've been wrong on some other things regarding this ADOS (like they initially put me on LWOP (KA) and instead of mil furlough (KG)). The only thing I can find on the OPM site is "Employees must be in a pay status or a paid time off status (i.e., leave, compensatory time off, compensatory time off for travel, or credit hours) on their scheduled workdays either before or after a holiday in order to be entitled to their regular pay for that day. The minimum time in a pay status required to receive regular paid holiday time off is one hour." I learned that you can even use civilian sick leave while on orders for illness/med appointments/etc, anything that you can generally charge to sick leave.
Has anyone on here successfully claimed holiday pay, and if so, how did you go about it? Just wondering if I'm leaving money on the table by not trying harder to claim this. Thanks!
I've heard of folks in this situation claiming holiday pay as long as they used leave before or after a federal holiday, and I brought it up to my HR folks months ago but they said since I was in a military furlough status I wasn't eligible. That being said, they've been wrong on some other things regarding this ADOS (like they initially put me on LWOP (KA) and instead of mil furlough (KG)). The only thing I can find on the OPM site is "Employees must be in a pay status or a paid time off status (i.e., leave, compensatory time off, compensatory time off for travel, or credit hours) on their scheduled workdays either before or after a holiday in order to be entitled to their regular pay for that day. The minimum time in a pay status required to receive regular paid holiday time off is one hour." I learned that you can even use civilian sick leave while on orders for illness/med appointments/etc, anything that you can generally charge to sick leave.
Has anyone on here successfully claimed holiday pay, and if so, how did you go about it? Just wondering if I'm leaving money on the table by not trying harder to claim this. Thanks!