Though OPM proposed regulations to implement all of the law’s provisions in 2017, only the provisions governing weather and safety leave actually made it across the finish line. But earlier this year, the environmental advocacy group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility sued the HR agency seeking to force it to act.
In a final rule set for publication Tuesday in the Federal Register, OPM formally implemented the 2016 law’s restrictions on administrative leave. While the new rule will be effective Jan. 17, 2025, agencies have until October to comply with the new restrictions on administrative leave.