45 CFR § 1176.2 - Definitions.

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title: "45 CFR § 1176.2 - Definitions."
title_number: 45
title_name: "Public Welfare"
section_number: "1176.2"
section_name: "Definitions."
chapter_name: "NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES"
subchapter_number: "D"
subchapter_name: "NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES"
part_number: "1176"
part_name: "PART-TIME CAREER EMPLOYMENT"
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last_updated: "2026-03-24"
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authority: "Federal Employees Part-Time Career Employment Act of 1978, Pub. L. 95-437, 92 Stat. 1055, 5 U.S.C. 3401-3408."
regulatory_source: "46 FR 35647, July 10, 1981, unless otherwise noted."
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# 1176.2 Definitions.

(a) *Part-time employment* means employment of 16 to 32 hours a week under a schedule consisting of an equal or varied number of hours per day, whether in a position which would be part-time without regard to the Act or one established to allow job-sharing or comparable arrangements, but does not include employment on a temporary or intermittent basis.

(b) *Career employment* includes competitive and excepted service employees in tenure groups I and II.