Title 5 — Government Organization and EmployeesRelease 119-73not60

§5926 Compensatory Time Off at Certain Posts in Foreign Areas

Title 5 › Part III— EMPLOYEES › Subpart D— Pay and Allowances › Chapter 59— ALLOWANCES › Subchapter III— OVERSEAS DIFFERENTIALS AND ALLOWANCES › § 5926

Last updated Apr 3, 2026|Official source

Summary

Under rules made under this subchapter and despite subchapter V of chapter 55 or any other law, an agency head may, if a foreign-area employee asks, give equal compensatory time off instead of regularly scheduled overtime at isolated posts or at posts with irregular hours or special conditions (to be used in the same pay period). Any unused comp time is lost when the employee is reassigned.

Full Legal Text

Title 5, §5926

Government Organization and Employees — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)Under regulations prescribed pursuant to this subchapter, and notwithstanding subchapter V of chapter 55 of this title or any other law, the head of an agency may, on request of an employee serving in a foreign area—

(1)at an isolated post performing functions required to be maintained on a substantially continuous basis, grant the employee compensatory time off for an equal amount of time spent in regularly scheduled overtime work; or

(2)at a post in a locality that customarily observes irregular hours of work or where other special conditions are present, in order to cope with those special circumstances, grant the employee compensatory time off for an equal amount of time spent in regularly scheduled overtime work for use during the pay period in which it is earned.

(b)Compensatory time earned under this section shall be for use only while the employee is assigned to the post where it is earned. Any such compensatory time not used at the time the employee is reassigned to another post shall be forfeited.

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Citation

5 U.S.C. § 5926

Title 5 — Government Organization and Employees

Last Updated

Apr 3, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60