SAVE Award 2011 Ideas

Federal agencies should allow employees to take a limited amount of unpaid leave each year. This would save the federal government money and provide employees with the option of additional leave each year. This gives employees the option of taking additional leave while allowing them to carry over annual leave into the next year. Many employees prefer to keep a bank of leave for emergencies but still desire extra time... more »

Allow employees to use a specific amount of unpaid leave, without penalty to leave, SCD, etc, upon supervisor's approval, of course.

Pick one holiday where the federal workforce is out of office but with with no pay.

Government employees who accrue less amount of leave (such as 4 hours per pay period) would welcome an optional furlough during slow quiet season such as Christmas Holiday or Summer Vacation, to be able to take an optional leave without pay, as an option to be able to spend time with family. We should encourage supervisors and managers to make this type of leave available to their staff, and advise them that there should... more »

Federal Employees appreciate the time-off we get from our national federal holidays, and we appreciate our country too.

As mentioned in a previous entry, Election Day should be a national federal holiday, but I suggest that all national federal holidays should be unpaid time-off.