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5 CFR § 532.501 - Definitions.

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identifier: "/us/cfr/t5/s532.501"
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title: "5 CFR § 532.501 - Definitions."
title_number: 5
title_name: "Administrative Personnel"
section_number: "532.501"
section_name: "Definitions."
chapter_name: "OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT"
subchapter_number: "B"
subchapter_name: "CIVIL SERVICE REGULATIONS"
part_number: "532"
part_name: "PREVAILING RATE SYSTEMS"
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currency: "2026-04-05"
last_updated: "2026-04-05"
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authority: "5 U.S.C. 5343, 5346. Sec. 532.707 also issued under 5 U.S.C. 552."
regulatory_source: "46 FR 21344, Apr. 10, 1981, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "532"
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# 532.501 Definitions.

In this subpart:

*Administrative workweek* means a period of seven consecutive calendar days.

*Basic workweek* for full time employees means the days and hours within an administrative workweek which make up the employee's regularly scheduled 40-hour workweek.

*Environmental differential* means a differential paid for a duty involving unusually severe hazards or working conditions.

*Irregular or occasional overtime work* means overtime work which is not part of the regularly scheduled administrative workweek.

*Night shift differential* means the differential paid the employee when the majority of regularly scheduled nonovertime hours worked fall between 3 p.m. and 8 a.m.

*Overtime work* means authorized and approved hours of work performed by an employee in excess of eight hours in a day or in excess of 40 hours in an administrative workweek, and includes irregular or occasional overtime work and regular overtime work.

*Premium pay* means additional compensation for overtime, or Sunday work, and standby duty.

*Sunday work* means work performed during a regularly scheduled tour of duty within a basic workweek when any part of that work which is not overtime work is performed on Sunday.

*Regular overtime work* means overtime work which is a part of the regularly scheduled administrative workweek.

*Regularly scheduled administrative workweek* means:

(1) For full-time employees, the period within an administrative workweek within which employees are scheduled to be on duty regularly.

(2) For part-time employees, it means the days and hours within an administrative workweek during which these employees are scheduled to be on duty regularly.

*Tour of duty* means the hours of a day, *i.e.,* a daily tour of duty, and the days of an administrative workweek, *i.e.,* a weekly tour of duty, that are scheduled in advance and during which an employee is required to perform on a regularly recurring basis.