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Example of a Military Leave Policy
Employees who are also military personnel in the Reserve or National Guard will at times need to take leave for military training, mobilization, or deployment. This type of leave may be considered non-standard as compared to leave for other employees. Here is an example of a military leave policy used by a federal agency that may be helpful in creating your own. You can find additional help in our handout, Planning for Military Leave for Employees in the Reserve and National Guard.
Military Leave. An employee is entitled to time off at full pay for certain types of active or inactive duty in the National Guard or as a Reserve of the Armed Forces. Any full-time or permanent part-time employee is entitled to military leave.
- A full-time employee working a 40-hour work week will accrue 120 hours (15 days x 8 hours) of military leave in a fiscal year, or the equivalent of three 40-hour workweeks. Military leave will be prorated for permanent part-time employees on the number of hours in the employee's regularly scheduled pay period.
- Inactive Duty Training is authorized training performed by members of a Reserve or National Guard component not on Active Duty. It is performed in connection with the prescribed activities of the Reserve or National Guard. It consists of regularly scheduled unit training periods, additional training periods, and equivalent training.
- Eligible employees may use 15 calendar days per year for Active Duty, Active Duty Training, and Inactive Duty Training. An employee can carry over a maximum of 15 days into the next fiscal year.
- Up to 22 workdays of military leave may be granted per calendar year for emergency duty as ordered by the President or a State governor. This can be for law enforcement or the protection of life and property.
- Reserve and National Guard Technicians are entitled to 44 workdays of military leave for duties overseas under certain conditions.
- Military leave should be credited to a full-time employee on the basis of an 8-hour workday. The minimum charge to leave is one hour. An employee may be charged military leave only for the hours that the employee would otherwise have worked and received pay.
- Employees who request military leave for Inactive Duty Training (which generally is two, four, or six hours in length) will be charged only the amount of military leave necessary to cover the period of training and necessary travel.
- An employee's pay remains the same for periods of military leave. The employee's pay is reduced by the amount of military pay for the days of military leave. However, an employee may choose not to take military leave and instead take annual leave in order to retain both company pay and military pay.
- When the employee requests military leave, they must make an appropriate request and provide copies of their military orders.
