Title 5 — Government Organization and EmployeesRelease 119-73not60

§6126 Flexible Schedules; Credit Hours; Accumulation and Compensation

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

Last updated Apr 3, 2026|Official source

Summary

Allows full-time employees on a flexible schedule to carry up to 24 credit hours from one two-week pay period to the next. Part-time employees can carry up to one-fourth of their two-week required work hours. The Office of Personnel Management or the agency can set smaller limits. If an employee stops being in a flexible schedule, they must be paid at their current base pay rate for those unused credit hours, up to the same limits (24 hours for full-time; no more than one-fourth of the two-week required hours for part-time).

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 3, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60