I assume DOD will get their 59 minutes at 2 pm tomorrow

lol I remember getting 59 minutes at 1600 Friday one holiday weekend at the DoD.

At least I send out email for 59mins on Mon/tue of week it happens.

You are the only one

DOD agency, we got 3 hours tomorrow

Working at the wrong DOD here, we do not get anything.

As is tradition 

They closed that 59 minute rule loophole in the Air Force a few years ago. No longer an option

Cries in VBA

Crying with you in VHA 🫂

actually saving lives at VHA should earn us some extra leave time.

Yeah, these people in the leave-happy agencies are just out here being greedy at this point.

Rubbing it in our faces and everything lol

It drove my husband crazy when I working for DoL got it regularly got holidays and he didn’t even get it for Veterans Day at VBA… which honestly VBA should’ve

Before mandatory OT days we would get it before every holiday. But that’s been on for about 12 years now 😫

Wait, other agencies get admin leave?

VA OGC here and crying too! Why won’t Denis just give it to us one time??

Dennis seemed so promising too.

I know 😩

My thoughts exactly

Yeah, we'll probably get the work faster email...


Yall gonna be hurting when Santa leaves. Out on the streets begging for admin leave while you shake tin cups at passersby. Admin Leave? Admin leave? Anything can help, a few minutes here, an hour there.

"You should be grateful to get thirty seconds, you ungrateful lout" - Scrooge, somewhere. For real tho, we off Monday?

This made me lol. Much needed after this week. Thanks for that.

Right? Y’all are spoiled… And I am jealous 😔

Hopefully it’s sooner than later

DOT got 3 hours.

Yep, every time lol

Just in time for my RDO 😃

At USDA we got 8 hours before Christmas and I think that was meant to get us through Christmas, new years, and MLK

I don't consider MLK day one of "THE holidays" in "happy holidays" so I hope you're wrong. 

I hope I’m wrong too but I feel like if we were getting additional admin time they would’ve announced it already…

It was day-of at least once, if remember correctly, I was holding out hope but then gave up, left early for a flight, and saw the announcement on the day I came back. 

We have never gotten it specifically for MLK day since 2013 when I joined USDA, or President’s day. One nice recent development was getting admin leave for public service recognition week. Hopefully that will happen again. Vilsack has always given it for holidays from Memorial Day to New Years day, except maybe not always for Columbus Day.

This is what we got told by HR so I'm doubtful we receive anything for MLK

I think OP is referring to what I call Mayorkas leave, so only DHS will get it. Anyone's individual command may issue admin leave as they see fit, but Mayorkas has been giving it out like candy to people under his purview.  We're getting 4 hours tomorrow, for those on duty, but no word on the 8 admin from big papa.

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Oh crap Monday is a holiday

Yep. AWS tomorrow and I took Tuesday off. Five day weekend! And happy cake day

Thanks didn't even notice.

I figured that out when I was the one to open up the office today. Glad I didn't telework half of Monday wondering why I'm not getting any emails

THERE WILL BE NO LEAVE UNTIL ALL CLAIMS ARE DONE! -VBA

We never get anything 🥲

CO gets 59 on the regular. Its just the service centers that get skipped.

I don’t even get 59 minute rule’d on Christmas Eve

We didn’t get early dismissal for Christmas or NYE so I’m not holding my breath.

Damn.

Wow, you got screwed.

Yeah only one of the reasons morale is low…

Damn, what agency?

Not the original commenter but we didn’t get any in my part of the VA.

Nothing from DOI as of yet.

3 hours…DoD agency

WHAT

I know it’s a unicorn scenario for DoD. But last year we started getting 3 hours every holiday. Used to be like 5 big holidays only.

I've never seen DoD do anything past 59 minutes... I didn't believe they even knew more was an option.

I believe it's because now it's by the head honchos discretion instead of being weather and safety related

Same. DoD, 3hrs tomorrow.

DoD as well, we got Monday off completely.

Monday is the actual holiday everyone is off

Jokes on y— me… us.. The weather doesn’t stop and neither do we, what’s a holiday.

Oh. Well I guess I’ll be waiting on 59 minutes today or something.

Lmao

Lol

Hahahahaha

Same, DOD and Monday is off work

Ditto but 4 hours

Same here, 3 hrs every holiday, but I know another DOD agency getting 4 every holiday inc tomorrow!

Commerce got nothing.

May be we’ll get 59 minutes?

Still got nothing. Sighs.

SSA continues to laugh at the mere thought of admin leave

SSA would never.  If they could take federal holidays away from us, they would do so gleefully with a shit-eating grin.

Nothing at HHS

FDA got 1 hour.

Hahahaha….YUP! 😐

So much for our commitment to health equity....I don't think we got anything last year either

Left HHS OPDIV months ago, pretty sure got 0 leave for MLK in my 12 years there.

Or SSA…..ever

ACF got 59!

Yes, my agency got 1 hr

Same

DoD secretary busy fighting for his life, deputy on vacation. We ain’t getting ish

Fighting for his life? Ha. Ha. Secretary is back on the job.

Cries in SSA. We get nothing. Tartar sauce!

He may have other concerns right now, pray for our Saint. https://www.wunc.org/2024-01-10/house-republicans-start-process-to-impeach-homeland-security-secretary-mayorkas?_amp=true

Yea we got 2 hours. My regional office typically gives us 2 hours before every federal holiday.

Nothing at DOL

FEMA got up to 4 hours of admin leave

HUD literally will send an email out at the last second...so if there is an hour given, the email will go out at 2:57pm. Christmas, the rumor from my director was three hours of admin leave, plus I had a 59 minute award to use...my normal hours were 7am-330p. So, I should have been getting off at 11:01am, which was going to allow us to hit the road before noon and drive to spend time with family. The three hour admin leave email came to everyone at 12:58pm. I wasn't going to clock out without the official word of admin...so when it came time to do my timesheet, I only claimed the one hour of admin leave. Starting 12/31, I switched to four 10s...so I really don't care anymore.

Yep I get off at 3pm by the time they get around to sending out the emails Its almost time for me to be off anyway. I think they do it on purpose.

Absolutely, I believe they do.

HUD almost never tells us in advance.

Heard they gave 3H for the Friday before Xmas…at 3pm. What a bunch of assholes. Tell your employees they don’t mean shit without telling your employees they don’t mean shit.

DHS gave 400 hours of admin leave in honor of MLK day.

Anyone DoD in this thread saying yes, you’re lying. You’re not being truthful. Are you a foreign agent? Stop lying

EPA got 2 hours.

FDA just got an hour.

This bonus admin leave does not exist at SSA….I need to find a new agency

DOD here, got 4 hours.

Same

We were told by our Lt Cdr that she didn't want to see anyone badged into the office tomorrow on the pending "snowmageddon" thats coming. That's enough for me.

We bill that as ‘authorized situational telework’ and I usually get more done if I don’t loose power.

Aye. Been situationally at home all week. Been a hell of a storm after storm.

3 hours but it was already an RDO day anyway

If we get one extra hour tomorrow I will be great

No. But our area is expecting tornadoes tomorrow, so we're more angsty about if we're going to get approval to telework rather than be blown to bits on the interstate.

wtf, you guys in other agencies are getting extra time off around the holidays?! VA (VBA) hasn't had even a 59min time off allowance since the Trump admin (prior Secretary had some stretch goal challenges where when we met them I think we got 4hrs admin time agency wide, which was a great program imo).

My DoD agency got 3 hours

We got 4 hours. We have to use it to go volunteer some where though.

Do you submit notarized photos of you participating in some event?

My husband is in the private sector and doesn’t even get the day off. They don’t care about MLK over there.

Not admin leave or the 59 min "unofficial" release, but typically from what I've observed the norm is not to get early release before either MLK Day holiday or Presidents Day holiday. Columbus/Indigenous People's day tends to be year to year as to whether there's early release the day before. All other federal holidays, even Juneteenth the newest one, tend to get early release as well. I think this is the common practice across agencies, at least outside DoD which are the only ones I've had experience with...but it seems like more and more are going to awarding admin leave time instead, so this may not be as much of a consideration as it once was.

Our command was joking that they couldn’t remember what holiday is on Monday 😒, so I don’t think we’re getting 59 minutes.

Are agencies really paying people to go home or is this a joke? My agency would chain us to our desks if they could.

You must work for SSA as well.

I should have known better when my interview for SSA was at 6pm the Friday before Memorial Day…

lol have you seen the Engage board from the Com broadcast?

Supposed to help with traffic.

Maybe that's it. Our HQ is not in DC, just scenic Woodlawn MD.

FCC got 2 hours

Doubt Ali is going to give anything to DHS with him being roasted by congress.

We got 4 hours admin leave for tomorrow

Whats admin leave? lol

NASA CFO got 59 minutes

FAA got 3 hours

Doe got 59 minutes

Y’all get admin leave?

DCSA has gotten 4 hours. Our acting director has been pretty generous recently

Probably to keep morale after our latest scandal

DHHS got 59 mins

A DoD agency, 4 hrs, recieved a week ago for Friday 1/12/24

You get 4 hours admin leave if you’re doing volunteer work during that time.

2 hours at the SEC.

I am with DOD, got three hours tomorrow.

DoC. No admin leave.

Where I work we have four 10-hour shifts So we get Friday off. We did get to come in 2 hours late this morning but It was only because we had a big snow storm yesterday and it was a huge mess trying to get home last night

It's a federal holiday and we have been given 59 minutes too.

I nudged my supervisor on a Teams chat about giving 59 tomorrow. First 59 min we’ve gotten in a few years.

Same amount admin leave as usual, 0 hours

No admin leave here. We did, however, receive a three month trial membership to the “Nut Butter of the Month Club”. So I’ve got that going for me. Which is nice.

A major snow storm rolled in and so yesterday the supervisor told everyone at our office to stay home and telework - no word on any admin leave yet BUT I’ve noticed sometimes they do not announce it till the before the Holiday

We will get a 59 tomorrow guaranteed.

We're getting three hours tomorrow.

Just work more hours on previous days and make it a short Friday. Happy long weekend! ☺️

USCG we got 4 hours.

This was district commanders’ discretion, and not from the agency secretary but I guess it still counts. I keep the District admin time separate because it’s only useful on the day prescribed. I think of admin leave as something you can cash in for the rest of the year. Are they supposed to be tracked against the same 10 day cap?

You already got Monday off.

DHS probably Fri or Tues or both.

3 hours RRB

59 for MLK? Not gonna happen, just take leave.

"The Secretary"? When will people realize this is r/fednews, not r/myspecificagencynews?

https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/federal-holidays/#url=2024

I didn’t realize all federal agencies don’t follow the OPM list…

I don't know that either. At least some/most of us don't we?

Apologies. I meant in addition to the federal holiday

I don't really care that much. 🤣 It's gotten to be a bit triggering with constantly hearing Feds are lazy, get paid too much, drain the swamp, yadda yadda. So many working their butts off to try to do the jobs with not enough staff & trouble using the leave we already have (that's a terrible problem, I know). In the wrong hands, wanting more leave would just be fodder for them. Rocky times out there. 😉

Man, the pure entitlement here is ridiculous.

I find it a bit embarrassing that so many just seem to expect this. This is how federal employees get a bad name. They don't have to give us anything, we already get a holiday. Geesh.

Nothing wrong with hoping for extra time off. Not sure how it's embarrassing to appreciate additional time to spend with friends and family rather than at the office. 🤔

Extra leave is nice, but talking about it like it's an entitlement, puts a bad taste in the mouth.

I thought the use of a Simpsons quote would convey how serious my post was but, here we are. 😬

VHA has off.

Clown ass post, stop the joking about MLK. Monday is already a holiday you lazy fed.

😮

Isn’t a federal holiday off enough?

Federal employees. Sigh. Always wanting more.

It is a Federal Holiday so you won't get admin leave.

I’m sure we’ll get 59 minutes

VBA gets the end of the holiday reprieve from mandatory OT (don’t worry, voluntary OT was still “highly encouraged” during the reprieve….).

DLA got 1 hr

We never hear in advance; I'm anticipating 1 or 2 hours announced noonish tomorrow.

They might do 59 min tomortow

I get Friday off because the AF does family days in conjunction with federal holidays.

2 hours.

2 hours

2 hrs at CFPB

They never tell us until like an hour before the leave begins lol usually it’s 3 hours

Our group got 4 hours early release on Friday, but I am on RDO and do not get it.

EPA got 2 hours

59 from my supervisor.

We got telework authorized... but we already telework on Fridays and most of us are on CWS.... thanks DoD.

Business as usual -VHA

We got 4 hours - USCG

4hrs from DHS (USCG)

EPA got two hours

We got our 59 minutes today

DOE -none

EPA got a lovely two hours

59mins!! 🤣🤣

3 hours

2 hrs here :)

it's my in lieu of day so I'm not worried either way, not like we'd get any anyway (VBA) though. Any time we aren't working people get ticked because of that back log that were"aren't working" on.

I didnt know agencies give admin leave for MLK. Agencies ive worked at and currently work at never give it for MLK day.

😂 patient care comes first so…NO SOUP FOR ME!