Effects of Nonpay Status on Service Dates


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If time in nonpay status was more than (See note below) Then And you must
1 40 hours since last within-grade increase under the Federal Wage System Next Federal Wage System within-grade increase may be delayed Extend the within-grade increase ending date by the amount of time in nonpay status in excess of 80 hours for the step 2 waiting period, 240 hours for the step 3 waiting period, and 160 hours for the steps 4 and 5 waiting periods.
2 80 hours since last General Schedule within-grade increase next General Schedule within-grade increase may be delayed Extend the within-grade increase ending date by the amount of time in nonpay status in excess of 80 hours for the steps 2, 3, and 4 waiting period, in excess of 160 hours for the steps 5, 6, and 7 waiting periods, and in excess of 240 hours for the steps 8, 9, and 10 waiting periods.
3 22 workdays since initial probationary period began Probationary/traial period completion (ending) date may be adjusted Extend the completion date by the number of workdays in nonpay status in excess of 22.
4 22 workdays since supervisory/managerial probationary period began
5 22 workdays since term appointment trial period began
6 30 calendar days during the period of nonpay that ends with the return to duty or placement in Pay Status action you are processing Career tenure due date must be adjusted Compute a new date for completion of service for career tenure. Extend the completion date by the number of calendar days in nonpay status in excess of 30 for each period of absence.
7 6 months total in the calendar year Service computation dates for leave accrual and reduction in force must be adjusted Add to employee's current service computation date the amount of nonpay time in excess of 6 months in one calendar year.

NOTE: If absence is to perform duty with the uniformed services or because of compensable injury, there is no penalty for the nonpay status -- time is credited for length of service purposes just as though the employee had remained in pay and duty status.

Adjusting Service Dates for Periods of Nonpay Status



Situation - Career-conditional appointment, GS-7/1 effective 1/5/98

WGI due - 1/3/99
Career Tenure due - 1/5/01
Probation/Trial end - 1/4/99

Employee took LWOP on 4/6/98 and RTD on 7/20/98

LWOP Calendar days Work days
April 25 19
May 31 21
June 30 22
July 19 13
Total LWOP 105 75

Adjust Service Dates


WGI       75 workdays LWOP Count out 65 workdays from WGI due date = 4/2/99
Next pay period = PP 8 effective 4/11/99.
-10 workdays allowable
  65 workdays excess LWOP    
 

TENURE       105 calendar days LWOP Count out 75 calendar days from Tenure
due date = 5/21/01
-30 calendar days allowable
75 calendar days excess LWOP    
 

Prob/Trial
Period end date    		    
  75 workdays LWOP Count out 53 workdays from prob/trial
period end date = 3/31/99.
-22 workdays allowable
  53 workdays excess LWOP    
 

Adjusted WGI due: 4/11/99
Adjusted Tenure due: 5/21/01
Adjusted P/T period date: 3/31/99

Adjustment For WGI And SCD

Situation: GS-7/4 effective 3/14/98    SCD Leave: 2/20/95
Probration period completed and employee has career tenure.

WGI Due: 3/11/00

Employee took LWOP on 4/12/99 and RTD on 11/8/99

    LWOP     Workdays
April 15
May 21
June 22
July 22
August 22
Sept 22
Oct 21
Nov 5
TOTAL 150

WGI    150 workdays LWOP Count out 130 workdays from
      WGI due date = 9/8/00
Next pay period = PP19 effective 9/10/00
-20 workdays days allowable
130 workdays excess LWOP    
 

SCD Leave - 6 months LWOP allowable in a calendar year.

LWOP during 1999       99      11      07
-99      04      12  
            06      25    LWOP

TOTAL LWOP      06      25
-06      00 = LWOP allowable in a calendar year
           25 days excess LWOP

Current SCD Leave = 95      02      20
+                     25 days excess LWOP
   95      02      45

                                  -95      03      15 = adjusted SCD Leave

Adjusted WGI: 9/10/00
Adjusted SCD Leave: 3/15/95

Within-Grade Increase

For GS schedule employees with a scheduled tour of duty (full-time or part-time), in a permanent position - including a temporary promotion lasting at least one year.

A Within Grade Increase (WGI) is "a periodic increase in pay from one step of the grade to the next step of the grade"...(basic salary scale).

Waiting period for WGI's are as follows:

The start of the waiting period for a WGI (identified as Within Grade Increase Service Commputation Date (WGI SCD)) begins:

  1. On the date of the first appointment as an employee of the Federal Government,

  2. After a period of nonpay status or a break in service (alone or in combination) in excess of 52 calendar weeks, unless that time is creditable uner 5 CFR 531.406 (military service, a break in service of less than 3 days, service in NAF, or allowable amount of LWOP for specific waiting period), or

  3. On receiveing an equivalent increase.

An Equivalent Increase - Per 5 CFR 531.403 "...an increase in an employee's rate of basic pay equal to or greater than the difference between the employee's rate of basic pay and the rate of pay for the next higher step of that grade..."

Essentially - an increase equal to the difference between two steps of the grade.

Since the Date of Last Equivalent Increase (DLEI), and therefore the WGI SCD may be impacted by any action that "moves" an employee from one position to another (e.g., transfer, conversion, promotion, change to lower grade, reassignment etc.), the DLEI must be identified and listed on the back of the SF-52. The assistant will verify that this date is correct in NFC.