Federal paid administrative leave :additional guidance needed to improve OPM data : report to congressional requesters.

Federal agencies have the discretion to grant paid administrative leave for a variety of reasons, such as weather closures and blood donations. While paid administrative leave costs taxpayers, it has not been reviewed or reported on extensively. GAO was asked to examine the use of paid administrative leave. This report (1) describes paid administrative leave policies at selected federal agencies; (2) reviews practices in recording and reporting paid administrative leave and describes the number of federal employees granted such leave, and the amount and associated salary costs of such leave; and (3) describes categories for which large amounts of paid administrative leave have been charged by individual employees at selected federal agencies. To determine the total amount of paid administrative leave, GAO analyzed fiscal year 2011 through 2013 payroll data from OPM's Enterprise Human Resources Integration system. To review agency policies and reasons for using large amounts of administrative leave, GAO selected five agencies based in part on the percentage of employees with higher-than-average amounts of such leave.

Author: U.s. Government Accountability Office

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Publication Date: Jul 27, 2017

Number of Pages: 62 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 1973956098

ISBN-13: 9781973956099