Flexible schedules; credit hours; accumulation and compensation

5 U.S.C. § 6126

• Title: 5 — Government Organization and Employees
• Chapter: SUBCHAPTER II—FLEXIBLE AND COMPRESSED WORK SCHEDULES

Text

(a) Subject to any limitation prescribed by the Office of Personnel Management or the agency, a full-time employee on a flexible schedule can accumulate not more than 24 credit hours, and a part-time employee can accumulate not more than one-fourth of the hours in such employee's biweekly basic work requirement, for carryover from a biweekly pay period to a succeeding biweekly pay period for credit to the basic work requirement for such period.
(b) Any employee who is on a flexible schedule program under section 6122 of this title and who is no longer subject to such a program shall be paid at such employee's then current rate of basic pay for—
(1) in the case of a full-time employee, not more than 24 credit hours accumulated by such employee, or
(2) in the case of a part-time employee, the number of credit hours (not in excess of one-fourth of the hours in such employee's biweekly basic work requirement) accumulated by such employee.

History

(Added Pub. L. 97–221, §2(a)(2), July 23, 1982, 96 Stat. 230.)