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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There seems to be a lot of confusion here between the leave bank and the voluntary leave transfer program. If you are a member of the leave bank (simply by donating one pay period's worth of annual leave per year), you just fill out  a form and can get 480 hours, I believe, of sick leave. You do not have to beg anyone for it. Now the voluntary leave transfer program is different.

I am now a federal employee of 30 years and came down with mono during my first year. I had to use advanced sick leave and it took me many years to make that up. I immediately joined the leave bank after that and have stayed ever since. I've never had to use it, but I know its there if I need it. Even when I was a new employee without any annual leave, I was happy to donate 4 hours per year to make things easier for anyone else who had a situation like I had.[/quote]

This is OP.  It's not 480 hours.  It's however many hours the leave bank can support.  So in some years it may be 480 hours, although that sounds like a TON.  In some years it's less, depending on the number of hours in the bank (the donations to the bank and the amount the bank has needed to pay out).

In my case, it will be 4 weeks of leave from the leave bank (160 hours).

Then I'm eligible to beg for more hours from colleagues through leave donations, which I will certainly do, but I agree with others that it's a crappy system.

I don't know why my supervisor won't give me advance leave.  He's a new manager and he's anxious about all things managerial.  My old chief approved many, many hours of advance leave for me years ago when I went on maternity leave.  This is a manager problem, but unfortunately because of a weird organizational quirk, there is no one above him in the org chart to appeal to, other than in the front office.  I could do that but it out burn every scrap of good will I have with him.  Right now we have a good relationship.[/quote]

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