Article 149p. 149

ADMINISTRATIVE CODE AND LAW OF PUBLIC OFFICERS TEXT AND RULES

filed immediately upon employee's return from such

leave. Notice of absence, however, should be sent to the

immediate

supervisor

and/or

to

the

agency

head.

Application for sick leave in excess of five (5) successive

days

shall

be

accompanied

by

a

proper

medical

certificate.

Sick leave may be applied for in advance in cases

where the official or employee will undergo medical

examination or operation or advised to rest in view of ill

health duly supported by a medical certificate.

In ordinary application for sick leave already taken not

exceeding five days, the head of department or agency

concerned may duly determine whether or not granting

of sick leave is proper under the circumstances. In case of

doubt, a medical certificate may be required.

SECTION 54. Approval of Sick Leave . — Sick leave

shall be granted only on account of sickness or disability

on the part of the employee concerned or of any member

of his immediate family.

SECTION 55. Rehabilitation Leave for Job-Related

Injuries . — Applications of officials and employees for

leave

of absence on account of wounds or injuries

incurred in the performance of duty must be made on

the prescribed form, supported by the proper medical

certificate and evidence showing that the wounds or

injuries were incurred in the performance of duty. The

head of department/agency concerned shall direct that

absence of an employee during his period of disability

thus occasioned shall be on full pay, but not to exceed six

(6) months. He shall also authorize the payment of

medical

attendance,

necessary

transportation,

subsistence and hospital fees of the injured person.

Absence in the case contemplated shall not be charged

against sick leave or vacation leave, if there are any.

SECTION 56. Leave Without Pay . — All absences of

an official or employee in excess of his accumulated

vacation or sick leave credits earned shall be without pay.

When an employee had already exhausted his sick

leave credits, he can use his vacation leave credits but not

vice versa.

SECTION 57. Limit of Leave Without Pay . — Leave

without pay not exceeding one year may be granted, in

addition to the vacation and/or sick leave earned. Leave

without pay in excess of one month shall require the

clearance of the proper head of department or agency.

SECTION

58.

When

Leave

Without Pay is Not

Allowable . — Leave without pay shall not be granted

whenever an employee has leave with pay to his credit

except in the case of secondment.

SECTION 59. Seconded Employee on Leave Without

pay from his Mother Agency . — The seconded employee

shall be on leave without pay from his mother agency for

the duration of his secondment, and during such period,

he

may

earn

leave

credits

which

is

commutable

immediately thereafter at and payable by the receiving

agency.

SECTION 60. Effect of Vacation Leave Without Pay

on the Grant of Length of Service Step Increment . — For

purposes of computing the length of service for the grant

of step increment, approved vacation leave without pay

for an aggregate of fifteen (15) days shall not interrupt the

continuity of the three-year service requirement for the

grant of step increment. However, if the total number of

authorized vacation leave without pay included within

the three-year period exceeds fifteen (15) days, the grant

of one-step increment will only be delayed for the same

number of days that an official or employee was absent

without pay.

SECTION 61. Effect of Pending Administrative Case

Against an Official or Employee . — Where officials or

employees have pending formal administrative charges

against them, no vacation leave with pay shall be granted

the respondent during the pendency of the case.

SECTION 62. Effect of Failure to Report for Duty

After Expiration of One Year Leave . — If an official or an

employee who is on leave without pay pursuant to

Section 57 hereof, fails to report for work at the expiration

of one year from the date of such leave, he shall be

considered automatically separated from the service.

SECTION 63. Effect of Absences Without Approved

Leave . — An official or an employee who is continuously

absent without approved leave for at least thirty (30)

calendar days shall be considered on absence without

official leave (AWOL) and shall be separated from the

service or dropped from the rolls without prior notice. He

shall, however, be informed, at his address appearing on

his 201 files of his separation from the service, not later

than five (5) days from its effectivity.

If the number of unauthorized absences incurred is

less

than

thirty

(30)

calendar

days,

a

written

Return-to-Work Order shall be served to him at his last

known address on record. Failure on his part to report for

work within the period stated in the order shall be a valid

ground to drop him from the rolls.

SECTION 64. Status of the Position of an Official or

Employee on Vacation Leave or Sick Leave . — While the

incumbent is on vacation or sick leave with or without

pay, his position is not vacant. During the period of such

leave therefore, only substitute appointment can be

made to such position.

SECTION 65. Effect of Decision in Administrative

Case . — An official or employee in the government who is

separated from the service for cause shall forfeit his leave

credits.

SECTION

66.

Effect

of

Exoneration

from

Criminal/Administrative Case . — In general, officials and

employees who have been dismissed from the service

but who were later exonerated and thereafter reinstated,

are entitled to the leave credits during the period they

were out of the service. cdasia

SECTION 67. Cause for Disciplinary Action . — Any

violation of the leave laws, rules or regulations, or any

misrepresentation or deception in connection with an

application for leave, shall be a ground for disciplinary

action. (Amendments to Rules I and XVI of the Omnibus

Rules Implementing Book V of the Administrative Code

of 1987 (Executive Order 292), CSC Memorandum Circular

No. 41-98, [December 24, 1998])

RULE XVII Government Office Hours

SECTION 1. *

It shall be the duty of each head of

department

or

agency

to

require

all

officers

and

employees under him to strictly observe the prescribed

office hours. When the head of office, in the exercise of

his discretion allows government officials and employees

to leave the office during the office hours and not for

official business, but to attend socials/events/functions

and/or wakes/interments, the same shall be reflected in

their time cards and charged to their leave credits.

SECTION 2. Each head of department or agency shall

require a daily record of attendance of all the officers and

employees under him including those serving in the field

or on the water, to be kept on the proper form and,

whenever possible, registered on the bundy clock.

Service "in the field" shall refer to service rendered

outside the office proper and service "on the water" shall

refer to service rendered on board a vessel which is the

usual place of work.

SECTION 3. Chiefs and Assistant Chiefs of agencies

who are appointed by the President, officers who rank

higher than these chiefs and assistant chiefs in the three

branches of the government, and other presidential

appointees need not punch in the bundy clock, but

attendance and all absences of such officers must be

recorded.

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