For these employees, leave year 2000 will have 27 pay periods. Employees in the 6-hour annual leave accrual category will earn 10 hours in the last full pay period of calendar year 2000. However, these employees will not earn any leave in the last pay period of leave year 2000 because they will have separated in the middle of a pay period.
Employees earn leave for each full pay period during which they are employed in a leave year.