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§6325 Absence resulting from hostile action abroad

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Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Do not charge an employee’s leave for up to one year if they were injured while serving abroad by war or similar hostile action, and the injury was not caused by the employee’s misconduct.

Full Legal Text

Title 5, §6325

Government Organization and Employees — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

Leave may not be charged to the account of an employee for absence, not to exceed one year, due to an injury—
(1)incurred while serving abroad and resulting from war, insurgency, mob violence, or similar hostile action; and
(2)not due to vicious habits, intemperance, or willful misconduct on the part of the employee.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

section 408 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980, referred to in text, is classified to section 3968 of Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse.

Amendments

1986—Pub. L. 99–399 inserted sentence at end relating to alien employees. 1979—Pub. L. 96–54 substituted provisions relating to leave charged to an account of an employee for absence, for provisions relating to leave charged to an account of any officer or employee for absence, and designated qualifying provisions as cls. (1) and (2).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 1979 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 96–54 effective July 12, 1979, see section 2(b) of Pub. L. 96–54, set out as a note under section 305 of this title.

Effective Date

Pub. L. 90–221, § 3(c), Dec. 23, 1967, 81 Stat. 671, provided that: “The amendment made by subsection (a) of this section [enacting this section] shall take effect as of the first day of the first pay period which began on or after January 1, 1965.”

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Citation

5 U.S.C. § 6325

Title 5Government Organization and Employees

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73