Please review the enclosed information, so that you will be aware of official procedures to follow during emergency situations. What Announcement Means Additional Guidance 1. NASA HQ will open on time, and employees are expected to report for work as scheduled. If it is announced that the Federal Government is open, but employees are unavoidably delayed in arriving for work, supervisors may grant a reasonable amount of excused absence to those employees. In determining the amount of excused absence to grant, supervisors should consider such factors such as distance, availability and mode of transportation, and the success of other employees in similar situations.
Employees are responsible for notifying their supervisors of their situation.
NASA HQ will open on time, but nonemergency employees should adjust their normal home departure time consistent with the announcement, and non-emergency employees who arrive late will be excused without loss of pay or charge to leave. The employee would be granted excused absence from the time he or she normally arrives at work until the time he or she actually arrives at work. Emergency employees are expected to report for work on time. Workdays on which a Federal activity is closed are nonworkdays for leave purposes. This does not apply to employees on LWOP, military leave, suspension, or in a nonpay status on the workday before and after the closure.