Same; standard 40-hour workweek established; exception, when; submission of information to director of accounts and reports; inapplicability to elective state officers.

75-5505. Same; standard 40-hour workweek established; exception, when; submission of information to director of accounts and reports; inapplicability to elective state officers. (a) It is the policy of the state that a forty-hour workweek shall be the standard workweek of state employees, and all pay rates established for such employees shall be based on a forty-hour workweek, except that workweeks which deviate from the forty-hour workweek may be established by appointing authorities in order to meet the varying needs of the different state agencies, and in such cases the pay rates established shall be based on the workweek so established. (b) Every state agency shall submit information to the director of accounts and reports: (1) Necessary for determining the number of hours per day and the number of days per week or, in case of irregular workweeks, the number of hours per week which shall constitute full-time employment for each position within its jurisdiction; (2) showing such schedules of work time assignment that are in effect for each employee in the agency; (3) describing the system of accruing credits and charges for all recognized annual, sick and other compensable leave for all officers and employees of the state agency who are not covered for such purposes by the Kansas civil service act and, if biweekly payroll periods are established for officers or employees of the state agency under K.S.A. 75-5501a, the balances of such accrued credits for such officers or employees on the implementation date; and (4) specifying the terms of any contractual obligations that affect any employment relationship. (c) Nothing in this section shall apply to individual elective state officers. History: L. 1974, ch. 390, § 5; L. 1975, ch. 452, § 6; L. 1980, ch. 264, § 4; July 1. CASE ANNOTATIONS 1. Cited; compensation allowable for home duty telephone time to state employees involved in oil and gas field operations examined. Hickey v. Kansas Corporation Comm'n, 244 Kan. 71, 74, 765 P.2d 1108 (1988). 2. Whether employees monthly salaries under state pay plan compensated all nonovertime hours worked examined. Schmitt v. State of Kan., 864 F. Supp. 1051, 1065 (1994). Previous | Next LEGISLATIVE COORDINATING COUNCIL General Policies 2026 Archived LCC Documents Archived LCC Meetings REVISOR OF STATUTES Archived Session Documents Archived School Finance Documents USEFUL LINKS Session Laws Kansas Administrative Regulations OTHER LEGISLATIVE SITES Kansas Legislature Administrative Services Division of Post Audit Research Department Contact Us PDF Help www.ksrevisor.gov 2026