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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't work at the same agency as M and K but my Agency would not allow an employee to shorten her schedule by 10 hours of LWOP every week.  First, under OPM regs, an employee cannot effectively work a parttime schedule and get full time benefits.  Second, an employee cannot  use leave provisions to fashion a new, permanent schedule when they have been hired on a set full time schedule.  This is considered leave abuse.  Third, LWOP is reserved for emergencies and situations of hardship.  It is not for fashioning a new schedule of convenience.

Of course, if there were a situation such as disability accommodation, medical hardship of OP or family member, or some other compelling situation that would be considered.  But simply asking to work 10 less hours would not be viable unless a request to go part-time with official part-time benefits were made.[/quote]

There is something disturbing about the idea that adjusting your schedule to a level that works for the employee and employer (meaning direct management) is "leave abuse."  And I have been a manager at a federal agency for 11 years.  I understand the impact on benefits, health benefits in particular, but someone working 35 hours a week (70 hours a pay period), which is full time per OPM regs as noted above, is not abusing benefits.  The issue is adequately addressed by the adjustment to leave when the employee hits 80 hours of LWOP.

Some agencies are really family UNfriendly when it comes to their leave policies.  I have never understood whether it was rigid application of the narrowest interpretation of the rules possible due to an inability to think reasonably or just a power thing.  [/quote]

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