Federal · Title 5 — Government Organization and Employees
5 U.S.C. § 6126: Flexible schedules; credit hours; accumulation and compensation
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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. in the case of a full-time employee, not more than 24 credit hours accumulated by such employee, or 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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