Title 5, Government Organization and EmployeesRelease 119-102

§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 Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

Employees on flexible work schedules can carry over a limited number of credit hours from one biweekly pay period to the next. Full-time workers may carry up to 24 credit hours. Part-time workers may carry up to one-fourth of their biweekly basic work hours. The Office of Personnel Management or the agency can set a lower limit. If a worker stops being on a flexible schedule, the agency must pay them for the credit hours they have saved at the worker’s current basic pay rate — up to 24 hours for full-time and up to one-fourth of biweekly 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

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102