Annual leave is an authorized absence from a regularly scheduled tour of duty, and is intended for vacation periods and for general and emergency absences.
Annual leave shall be credited to all full-time employees in the Educational and Career Service, with the exception of ET-15 employees.
Annual leave shall not be credited when employment is for a period less than ninety (90) days.
When limited appointments extend beyond ninety (90) days, with no break in service, annual leave shall be granted retroactive to the date of initial appointment.
Annual leave shall be credited on the basis of the length of total creditable District government service, as follows:
Part-time employees with regular, pre-scheduled tours of duty shall be credited annual leave at the rate of one (1) hour for each twenty (20) work hours per pay period.
Part-time employees with a tour of duty less than twenty (20) hours per pay period shall not earn annual leave.
Circumstances warranting use of annual leave and procedures for crediting and authorizing use of annual leave shall be established by the Superintendent of Schools.
Unused annual leave shall be carried forward from year to year, with a maximum accumulation of two hundred forty (240) hours or thirty (30) days. Accumulation in excess of two hundred forty (240) hours or thirty (30) days shall be forfeited at the end of the leave year.
Procedures for and circumstances warranting the restoration of forfeited annual leave shall be established by the Superintendent.
Annual leave may be advanced in amounts equal to that normally credited during the balance of the current leave year, or to the duration of appointment, whichever is appropriate.
An employee with an annual leave balance to his or her credit who transfers to the ET-15 salary class with no break in service, may do either of the following:
Accumulated annual leave shall be payable upon separation from the Board of Education.
Accumulated annual leave of employees resigning to accept employment with another District government agency will be transferred; provided, that no break in service occurs.
The terms of any negotiated agreement relating to annual leave shall supersede this section.
D.C. Mun. Regs. tit. 5, r. 5-E1201