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If the employee fails to apply for leave or the employee does not go on leave, such leave would be forfeited. (The forfeiture is subject to more favourable provisions that may be contained in the contract of employment or the employer's leave policy).

An employee will receive a lump-sum payment for any unused annual leave when he or she separates from Federal service or enters on active duty in the armed forces and elects to receive a lump-sum payment.

Normally annual leave payouts are within 1-2 pay periods after you leave/retire.

If you are requesting restoration of leave, a CD-479, Request for Restoration of Annual Leave, or memorandum to the approving official, must be completed and provide: The reason leave was forfeited or could not be used (illness, exigency or extended exigency of the service) along with a concise explanation of the facts.

The leave earned over the maximum carryover limit is generally referred to as "use or lose" leave. With a few exceptions (outlined below), earned hours above the carryover limit not used before the end of the leave year are lost or "forfeited".

An employee should get the following entitlements in their final pay: outstanding wages for hours they have worked, including penalty rates and allowances. any accumulated annual leave, including annual leave loading if it would have been paid during employment.

Any restored annual leave to the employee's credit must be liquidated by a lump sum payment.

An agency may consider for restoration annual leave that was forfeited due to an exigency of the public business or sickness of the employee only if the annual leave was scheduled in writing before the start of the third biweekly pay period prior to the end of the leave year.