---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 6332"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "6332"
heading: "General authority"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/6332"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart E — Attendance and Leave"
  - "Chapter 63 — Leave"
  - "Subchapter III — Voluntary Transfers of Leave"
---

# §6332. General authority


Notwithstanding any provision of subchapter I, and subject to the provisions of this subchapter, the [Office](/usc/5/5402.md?p=3) of Personnel Management shall establish a program under which annual leave accrued or accumulated by an [employee](/usc/5/6301.md?p=2) may be transferred to the annual leave [account](/usc/5/8401.md?p=1) of any other [employee](/usc/5/6301.md?p=2) if such other [employee](/usc/5/6301.md?p=2) requires additional leave because of a medical emer­gency.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 100–566, § 2(a), Oct. 31, 1988, 102 Stat. 2834.)