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This rule is not to be used to replace time-off awards or other types of recognition.

Although the guidance applied only to employees at Daegu, some of it is worth noting: The letter provided guidance for managers and supervisors in their use of the measure. Ortega said the 59-minute rule policy letter is the only such that she is aware of to have ever been established at a U.S. Army Garrison-Daegu in South Korea, called Policy Letter #81 (see link below), "The 59-minute rule is considered an approved absence period that is at the discretion of managers and supervisors." "It is not part of an award system it is not an entitlement."Īccording to an Oct. "It is simply an approved absence," said Ortega. Ortega said there is sometimes confusion over what the 59-minute rule is and is not.

The article states that the 59-minute rule has become a time-honored tradition with some noteworthy administrative case decisions, which serves to establish rules and principles for the practice. It is a term that has evolved for authorized infrequent release of employees of an hour or less."Īccording to a Department of Army article written by Mike Litak and published in The Army Lawyer titled The Fifty-Nine-Minute Rule: White Christmas, Gray Area? (see link below), "There is no government-wide fifty-nine minute rule as such," but … "the power of federal agencies to grant it nonetheless derives from broad statutory authority to regulate their workforces." "The 59-minute rule is not actually a rule and is not found in specific regulatory guidance. "There is no regulatory guidance on it," said Terry Ortega, a human resources specialist at the Fort Knox Civilian Personnel Advisory Center. Other Department of Defense branches use it as well as several other federal organizations.Īrmy officials say the time off is usually given to a government employee either as a way to forgive an unusually rare tardiness due to unforeseen circumstances or as an early release incentive at the start of a holiday - all at the behest of a supervisor.

Though the establishment of the 59-minute rule is apparently lost to history, it is most likely celebrated by civilian employees as much today as it was at its inception and not just in the Army. Army officials say the 59-minute rule is not a policy but instead, something usually given to a government employee either as a way to forgive an unusually rare tardiness due to unforeseen circumstances or as an early release incentive at the start o.