Earning rate

1. Law
2. US Virgin Islands Code
3. Executive
4. Personnel Merit System, Compensation, Expenses and Miscellaneous Benefits
5. Leaves of Absence
6. Earning rate

• Notwithstanding the provisions of section 581 of this title, and except as provided in section 41 of Title 2 of this Code, all employees of the Government of the United States Virgin Islands, regardless of tenure, who enter Government Service after June 30, 1968, shall accrue annual leave as follows:

  • (1) One-half day for each full biweekly pay period for an employee with less than 3 years of service;

  • (2) three-fourths day for each full biweekly pay period, except that the accrual for the last full biweekly pay period in the year is one and one-fourth days, for an employee with 3 but less than employee with 3 but less than 15 years of service; and

  • (3) one day for each full biweekly pay period for an employee with 15 or more years of service.

• Employees who return to the Government service after an absence of no more than five years shall accrue leave at the rate accrued at the time of their most recent separation from Government service unless such rate was less than specified above.

• The word “employees” when used in this section shall include all personnel in the Government Service, including “officers”. The word “service” when used in this section shall include periods of active military service of up to ten years in the Armed Forces of the United States and periods of up to 10 years of Federal Government service in the Virgin Islands.

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