QUESTION: Will Agents have to make up hours if they take AL or SL?
ANSWER: Page 11 (F) says that
"if the border patrol agent is absent during SCHEDULED overtime described
in subparagraph (A)(ii) the border patrol agent shall accrue an obligation to
perform other overtime work for each hour (or part thereof) the border patrol
agent is absent. If you take AL or SL
you are no longer scheduled to work OT.
But like AUO, if you take a partial day, you will have a requirement to
make the time up. The report language
clarifies and makes sure this section is administered properly and it
says: If an agent is absent during
scheduled overtime, he or she will accrue an obligation to perform other
overtime work for each hour he or she is absent. The intent of this section is
not to penalize Border Patrol agents who can otherwise use allowable leave to
cover absences during regularly scheduled workdays, but rather to provide a
mechanism for allowing agents who must take unanticipated leave in the middle
of a regularly scheduled workday to make up the overtime hours that they did
not work that day.
