{"id":1059,"date":"2016-12-08T10:20:10","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T15:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/?p=1059"},"modified":"2024-02-13T08:30:42","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T13:30:42","slug":"wounded-warriors-federal-leave-act-2015-federal-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wounded-warriors-federal-leave-act-2015-federal-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Wounded Warriors Federal Leave Act of 2015 for Federal employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FYI: please see link below for information on the Wounded Warriors Federal Leave Act of 2015 for Federal employees hired after 11\/5\/2016 and have service connected disabilities for 30% or more.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEstablished under the Wounded Warriors Federal Leave Act of 2015 (Wounded Warriors Act), disabled veteran leave will be available to any Federal employee <strong>hired on or after November 5, 2016<\/strong>, who is a veteran with a service-connected disability rating of 30 percent or more\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026.Disabled veteran leave is available as a one-time benefit during a 12-month period beginning on an eligible employee\u2019s \u201cfirst day of employment\u201d and <strong>may not exceed 104 hours <\/strong>for a regular full-time employee.\u00a0 Disabled veteran leave can only be used for undergoing medical treatment of a qualifying service-connected disability, which was incurred or aggravated in the line of active duty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opm.gov\/news\/releases\/2016\/08\/newly-established-leave-policy-gives-disabled-veterans-more-time-to-address-medical-issues-1\/\"><u>https:\/\/www.opm.gov\/news\/releases\/2016\/08\/newly-established-leave-policy-gives-disabled-veterans-more-time-to-address-medical-issues-1\/<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FYI: please see link below for information on the Wounded Warriors Federal Leave Act of 2015 for Federal employees hired after 11\/5\/2016 and have service connected disabilities for 30% or more. &nbsp; \u201cEstablished under the Wounded Warriors Federal Leave Act of 2015 (Wounded Warriors Act), disabled veteran leave will be available to any Federal employee &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wounded-warriors-federal-leave-act-2015-federal-employees\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wounded Warriors Federal Leave Act of 2015 for Federal employees<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1060,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions\/1060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}