---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 6329c"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "6329c"
heading: "Weather and safety leave"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/6329c"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart E — Attendance and Leave"
  - "Chapter 63 — Leave"
  - "Subchapter II — Other Paid Leave"
---

# §6329c. Weather and safety leave

- (a) **Definitions.—** In this section—
  - (1) the term “[agency](/usc/5/3132.md?p=a-1)”—
    - (A) means an [Executive agency](/usc/5/6501.md?p=2) (as defined in [section 105 of this title](/usc/5/105.md));
    - (B) includes the Department of Veterans Affairs; and
    - (C) does not include the [Government](/usc/5/4101.md?p=3) Accountability [Office](/usc/5/5402.md?p=3); and
  - (2) the term “[employee](/usc/5/6301.md?p=2)”—
    - (A) has the meaning given the term in [section 2105](/usc/5/2105.md); and
    - (B) does not include an intermittent [employee](/usc/5/6301.md?p=2) who does not have an established regular tour of duty during the administrative workweek.
- (b) **Leave for Weather and Safety Issues.—** An [agency](/usc/5/3132.md?p=a-1) may approve the provision of leave under this section to an [employee](/usc/5/6301.md?p=2) or a group of [employees](/usc/5/6301.md?p=2) without [loss](/usc/5/8401.md?p=18) of or reduction in the [pay](/usc/5/7511.md?p=a-4) of the [employee](/usc/5/6301.md?p=2) or [employees](/usc/5/6301.md?p=2), leave to which the [employee](/usc/5/6301.md?p=2) or [employees](/usc/5/6301.md?p=2) are otherwise entitled, or credit to the [employee](/usc/5/6301.md?p=2) or [employees](/usc/5/6301.md?p=2) for time or [service](/usc/5/8401.md?p=26) only if the [employee](/usc/5/6301.md?p=2) or group of [employees](/usc/5/6301.md?p=2) is prevented from safely traveling to or performing work at an approved location due to—
  - (1) an act of God;
  - (2) a terrorist attack; or
  - (3) another condition that prevents the [employee](/usc/5/6301.md?p=2) or group of [employees](/usc/5/6301.md?p=2) from safely traveling to or performing work at an approved location.
- (c) **Records.—** An [agency](/usc/5/3132.md?p=a-1) shall record leave provided under this section separately from leave authorized under any other provision of law.
- (d) **Regulations.—** Not later than 270 days after the date of enactment of this section, the [Director](/usc/5/8401.md?p=8) of the [Office](/usc/5/5402.md?p=3) of Personnel Management shall prescribe regulations to carry out this section, including—
  - (1) guidance to [agencies](/usc/5/3132.md?p=a-1) regarding the appropriate purposes for providing leave under this section; and
  - (2) the proper recording of leave provided under this section.
- (e) **Relation to Other Laws.—** Notwithstanding subsection (a) of [section 7421 of title 38](/usc/38/7421.md), this section shall apply to an [employee](/usc/5/6301.md?p=2) described in [subsection (b)](/usc/38/7421.md?p=b) of that section.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 114–328, div. A, title XI, § 1138(e)(1), Dec. 23, 2016, 130 Stat. 2469.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The date of enactment of this section, subsec. (d), is the date of enactment of Pub. L. 114–328, which was approved Dec. 23, 2016.