GENERAL COUNSEL'S OPINION NUMBER 53-1, DATED 29 OCTOBER 1953

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• Publication Date: October 29, 1953
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GENERAL COUNSEL'S OPINION NUMBER 53-1, DATED 29 OCTOBER 1953
Leave in the United States taken for personal convenience by
an employee permanently stationed abroad does not constitute
a break in continuous service abroad.
TO THE EXECUTIVE OFFICER, DD/A:
1. This will acknowledge receipt of your memorandum of 21 October
1953 raising the question whether legally CIA may permit an individual
to take leave in the United States for his own personal convenience with-
out such leave breaking continuity of service.
2. The subject of leave without pay-as affecting the concept of
continuous service abroad has been the subject of two recent opinions of
this office holding that leave without pay taken under emergency condi-
tions in the United States, or for the personal convenience of the em-
ployee in the field, would not constitute a break in continuous service
abroad. We are also of the opinion that leave in the United States for
the personal convenience of the employee, taken either as leave without
pay or as annual leave, would not constitute a break in continuous
service. We would, therefore, answer the specific question raised in
paragraph 2 of your memorandum in the affirmative.
3. This opinion has been informally concurred in by the General
Accounting Office.
LAWRENCE R. HOUSTON
General Counsel
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