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§6325 Absence Resulting From Hostile Action Abroad

Title 5 › PART III — EMPLOYEES › Subpart E — Attendance and Leave › CHAPTER 63 — LEAVE › SUBCHAPTER II — OTHER PAID LEAVE › § 6325

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

An employee won't be charged leave for up to one year if they are absent because they were injured while serving abroad from war, insurgency, mob violence, or similar hostile action, unless the injury was caused by the employee's bad habits, drunkenness, or intentional wrongdoing. The same rule also covers certain foreign (alien) employees who get leave under federal foreign‑service or related leave rules.

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.
The preceding provisions of this section shall apply in the case of an alien employee referred to in section 6301(2)(viii) of this title with respect to any leave granted to such alien employee under section 6310 of this title or section 408 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980.

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 5, Government Organization and Employees

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110