CSC Special Leave Privileges Amendment

Personal Milestones: Leave for birthdays, weddings, wedding anniversaries, death anniversaries, and similar personal celebrations.
Parental Obligations: Leave to attend school programs, PTA meetings, graduations, religious rites like first communion, and medical needs involving the employee's child.
Filial Obligations: Leave to fulfill moral obligations toward parents and siblings for their medical and social needs.
Domestic Emergencies: Leave for urgent household matters such as sudden repairs or absence of household help.
Personal Transactions: Leave to cover personal dealings with government or private offices, including paying taxes, court appearances, and housing loan arrangements.
Calamity, Accident, Hospitalization: Leave granted in cases of force majeure affecting the life, health, or property of the employee or immediate family.

Leave for birthdays or wedding anniversaries may be availed even if the occasion falls on a weekend or holiday, before or after the actual date.
Employees applying for special leave privileges are not required to present proof or documentation to justify their leave.
A maximum of three (3) days of special leave may be availed in a calendar year.
- This may be taken as one continuous leave of three days or as a combination of different types of special leaves.
- Special leave credits are non-cumulative and non-convertible to cash.
Definition of "Immediate Family" includes spouse, children, parents, unmarried brothers and sisters, or any relative who lives under the same roof or depends on the employee for support.

The amendment to Section 21 of CSC Memorandum Circular No. 41, s. 1998 took effect immediately upon adoption on March 9, 1999.

Issued and adopted by Corazon Alma G. De Leon, Chairman of the Civil Service Commission, ensuring equitable access to special leave privileges across qualified government sectors.