A leave recipient must use accrued annual leave (or sick leave, if applicable) before using donated leave (note that beginning December 2, 1994, an eligible employee may use up to 13 days of sick leave to care for a family member, see Federal Employees Family Friendly Leave Act).
Investors assessing the safety of dividends through historical figures are missing the point. Verizon was only able to pay dividends in 2016 by selling of $6.1 billion assets. Verizon cannot continue to pay their dividends. While I am by no means a dividend investor, I feel inclined to comment on the topic.
SPY went ex-dividend Friday, June 16th, 2017 with a dividend of  $1.18311 per share. Its distribution payout will be on July 27th,2017. VOO, one of the other two big S&P 500 ETFs, went ex-dividend the 23rd of June with a dividend of $1.01/ share and IVV went ex-dividend on the 27th of June with a dividend of $1.11698/ share. VOO and IVV are much faster to distribute the dividendsâboth pay out within a week of their ex-dividend dates.