 Good afternoon,
Today the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) posted a new Administrative Leave Fact Sheet providing guidance on administrative leave authorized under 5 U.S.C. 6329a.
OPM issued final regulations on section 6329a administrative leave on December 17, 2024, and issued a memorandum to agency heads on January 3, 2025 [Compensation Policy Memorandum (CPM) 2025-01] that provided guidance on implementing section 6329a. The new fact sheet supplements the regulations and the earlier OPM guidance. It provides examples of appropriate uses of section 6329a administrative leave, including use in connection with workforce realignment initiatives.
The new fact sheet provides current Administration policy on granting administrative leave for voting purposes. Consistent with Executive Order 14148 of January 20, 2025, OPM has rescinded two previous Biden Administration guidance memoranda, “Executive Order on Promoting Access to Voting” (CPM 2022-05, March 24, 2022) and “Access to Voting” (CPM 2024-18, August 29, 2024), which significantly departed from longstanding policy. Agencies should follow the Governmentwide policy on granting administrative leave for voting purposes set forth in the new fact sheet. The new policy addresses administrative leave that allows an employee to vote and does not include granting administrative leave for time spent serving as a non-partisan poll worker or observer. The head of each agency (or his or her designee) has discretion to grant administrative leave for voting in limited circumstances in which there is no reasonable opportunity for an employee to vote outside of their regular work hours, and only to the extent that such time off does not interfere with agency operations.
For additional information, agency headquarters-level human resources policy offices may contact OPM at leavepolicy@opm.gov. Component-level human resources offices must contact their agency headquarters for assistance. Employees must contact their agency human resources offices.
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