DOD Civilian Employees' Use of Sick Leave Before Retirement is Still High

Abstract

The services are permitting many employees pending optional retirement to exhaust their sick leave with the result that these employees receive full pay and earn additional sick and annual leave plus retirement credit while exhausting this sick leave. At five installations examined, about 10 percent of the employees were granted extended sick leave immediately before retiring, and about one-third used all sick leave before retiring. Agency approval for retirement-eligible employees to exhaust sick leave before retiring constitutes an agency-approved disability retirement, which is processed as optional retirement for convenience. Employees receive lump-sum payment for all unused annual leave on retiring, but not for sick leave. There is a financial incentive for these employees to conserve annual leave and charge sick leave when they are absent from work.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 08, 1979
Accession Number
AD1152111

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  • United States Government Accountability Office

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  • Biomedical

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  • Absenteeism
  • Accounting
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Business Administration
  • Cardiovascular Physiological Phenomena
  • Congress
  • Department Of Defense
  • Employment
  • Governments
  • Law
  • Management Personnel
  • Marine Corps
  • Medical Examination
  • Medical Personnel
  • Naval Air Stations
  • Personnel Management
  • Regulations
  • Supervisors
  • United States

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  • Business

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  • Government Contracting/Procurement.
  • Rehabilitation and Prosthetic Care for Military Service Members and Veterans with Limb Loss or Disability.
  • Trauma or Military Medicine