Excepted Employees are entitled by law to use leave. Citations within. Don’t let your supervisor tell you otherwise. Outside Megathread because awareness sees low and Megathread FAQ doesn’t mention it. And it is important to many RIGHT NOW.

The existing law as of today says you are entitled to use leave during a shutdown. A link to the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019, passed in 2019 and signed by Trump:

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-116publ1/pdf/PLAW-116publ1.pdf

(3) During a covered lapse in appropriations, each excepted employee who is required to perform work shall be entitled to use leave under chapter 63 of title 5, or any other applicable law governing the use of leave by the excepted employee…

I’m posting this outside the mega thread because (a) this question is not answered in the Megathread FAQ and (b) I’m seeing references to leave being denied in like every other thread with few citations of this law.

There seems to be very low awareness of his provision of the act, so I believe it warrants its own post.