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Personnel agency clarifies policies for the day

Federal News Network Staff

January 6, 2009 8:41 pm

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Personnel agency clarifies Inauguration Day policies By Alyssa Rosenberg

Inauguration Day will be a holiday for federal employees in the immediate Washington area, and outgoing political appointees will receive a half day’s pay, according to two recent Office of Personnel Management notices.

The day off on Jan. 20 will apply to most nonemergency federal workers in the District of Columbia; Montgomery and Prince George’s counties in Maryland; Arlington and Fairfax counties in Virginia; and the Virginia cities of Alexandria, Falls Church and Fairfax.

Officials who resign on that day will be compensated for four hours of work because they will leave around noon, Nancy Kichak, associate director for the human resources policy division at OPM, wrote in a Dec. 30 memorandum.

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