[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 5, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 5CFR630.502]

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                    TITLE 5--ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
 
                CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
 
PART 630--ABSENCE AND LEAVE--Table of Contents
 
                      Subpart E--Recredit of Leave
 
Sec. 630.502  Sick leave recredit.

    (a) When an employee transfers between positions under subchapter I 
of chapter 63 of title 5, United States Code, the agency from which the 
employee transfers shall certify his or her sick leave account to the 
employing agency for credit or charge.
    (b) Except as provided in Sec. 630.407 and in paragraph (c) of this 
section, an employee who has had a break in service is entitled to a 
recredit of sick leave (without regard to the date of his or her 
separation), if he or she returns to Federal employment on or after 
December 2, 1994, unless the sick leave was forfeited upon reemployment 
in the Federal Government before December 2, 1994.
    (c) Except as provided in Sec. 630.407, an employee of the 
government of the District of Columbia who was first employed by the 
government of the District of Columbia before October 1, 1987, who has 
had a break in service is entitled to a recredit of sick leave (without 
regard to the date of his or her separation), if he or she returns to 
Federal employment on or after December 2, 1994, unless the sick leave 
was forfeited upon reemployment in the Federal Government before 
December 2, 1994.
    (d) When sick leave is transferred between different leave systems 
under section 6308 of title 5, United States Code, 7 calendar days of 
sick leave are deemed equal to 5 workdays of sick leave.
    (e) An employee who transfers to a position under a different leave 
system to which he or she can transfer only a part of his or her sick 
leave is entitled to a recredit of the untransferred sick leave (without 
regard to the date of the original transfer) if the employee returns to 
the leave system under which it was earned on or after December 2, 1994.
    (f) An employee who transfers to a position to which he or she 
cannot transfer his or her sick leave is entitled to a recredit of the 
untransferred sick leave (without regard to the date of the original 
transfer) if the employee returns to the leave system under which it was 
earned on or after December 2, 1994.
    (g) The recredit of sick leave under this section shall be supported 
by written documentation available to the employing agency in its 
official personnel records concerning the employee, the official records 
of the employee's former employing agency, copies of contemporaneous 
earnings and leave statement(s) provided by the employee, or copies of 
other contemporaneous written documentation acceptable to the agency.

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    (h) The sick leave to be recredited under this section must have 
been accrued under 5 U.S.C. 6307 or transferred to the employee's credit 
under 5 U.S.C. 6308 (or the corresponding provisions of prior statutes).

[59 FR 62271, Dec. 2, 1994]