Common use of Operational Need Clause in Contracts

Operational Need. Approved annual leave requests for sixteen (16) hoursor more, once approved, will be canceled only for valid operational reasons which equire the employee not to take leave. Valid operational reasons include such matters as illness or death of another employee, directed details by authority outside the Service, special mission requirements which do not lend themselves to normal scheduling, and other events which create an actual necessity for personnel and not reasons which may make canceling leave merely desirable.

Operational Need. Approved annual leave requests for sixteen (16) hoursor hours or more, once approved, will be canceled only for valid operational reasons which equire require the employee not to take leave. Valid operational reasons include such matters as illness or death of another employee, directed details by authority outside the Service, special mission requirements which do not lend themselves to normal scheduling, and other events which create an actual necessity for personnel and not reasons which may make canceling leave merely desirable.