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B-199206 1 (1980-10-07)

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                         TH   CorIMPTROLLER  GENERAL
DECISION pirM 1J                            D N-
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FILE:   B-199206               DATE:  October 7, 1980

MATTER   OF:    Sharon E. Jenkins - Flexible Work
                Schedules - Credit Hours. vs. Overtime
                Hours
DIG EST:
          (1)  Under Title I (flexible schedules) of
               the          1 era@ Eles iexib-le _ri ECm-
               pre!ssed aork. Schedu la.,s Act, of 1978,
               credit hours are hours of work performed
               at the employee's option and are dis-
               tinguished from overtime hours in that
               they -do not constitute overtime work
               which is officially ordered in advance
               by management.  Therefore., since an em-
               ployee was ordered to work 5 hours at
               the end of the pay period when she was
               scheduled to take off, and since she
               had already accumulated 10 credit
               hIfurs,. ai since she had alreadv worked
               40 hours that week, the 5 hours of work
               are/ overti:ma.

          (2)  An employee on a flexible schedule who
               is ordered to work 5 hours which are
               overtime hours at the end of a pay
               period, oay, on her request, receive
               compensatory time off for such time so
               long as she does not accrue more than
               IC hours of compensatory time in lieu
               of payment fcr regularly or irregularly
               scheduled overtime work.

     Wayn'e 1. Lezhe,, Chief Aco._urtadt and an authorized
certifying officer with the Federial Communicaticns
Commission, has asked \ether  ancin iaat manner an
employee may be compensated in circumstances where,
as the result of exigencies of the service, she is
precluded from using scheduled credit hours under
Title I of the Federal Employees Flexible and Com~
pressed Work Schedules Act of 1978, Public Law 95-390,
September 29, 1978.

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