What is the maximum annual leave balance for employees who have completed 15 years of service?

• A. 600 hours
• B. 800 hours
• C. 900 hours
• D. 1000 hours

Answer: (B)

Leave accrual is earned over time, but there’s a cap on how much leave you can have stored. That cap increases with years of service, and for someone with fifteen years on the job, the maximum allowed balance is eight hundred hours. So you can’t have more than eight hundred hours of unused annual leave at any point.

For example, if you’re at 795 hours and you earn eight more hours this period, you’d top out at the cap and only gain five hours rather than all eight; the rest would be lost unless you take leave or cash out. This is why eight hundred hours is the correct maximum for fifteen years of service. The other options don’t fit because they would exceed or fall short of the established cap for this level of tenure.