Title 5 — Government Organization and EmployeesRelease 119-73

§6126 Flexible schedules; credit hours; accumulation and compensation

Title 5 › Part PART III— - EMPLOYEES › Subpart Subpart E— - Attendance and Leave › Chapter CHAPTER 61— - HOURS OF WORK › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER II— - FLEXIBLE AND COMPRESSED WORK SCHEDULES › § 6126

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Full-time workers on a flexible schedule may carry over up to 24 credit hours from one two-week pay period to the next, and part-time workers may carry over up to one-fourth of their biweekly work hours for credit toward the next period, unless the Office of Personnel Management or the agency sets a different limit. If a worker stops being in the flexible schedule program, they must be paid at their current basic pay rate for the accumulated credit hours, up to those same limits.

Full Legal Text

Title 5, §6126

Government Organization and Employees — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(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.

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Citation

5 U.S.C. § 6126

Title 5 — Government Organization and Employees

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73