5 USC § 6126 - Flexible schedules; credit hours; accumulation and compensation

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identifier: "/us/usc/t5/s6126"
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legal_status: "official_legal_evidence"
title: "5 USC § 6126 - Flexible schedules; credit hours; accumulation and compensation"
title_number: 5
title_name: "GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES"
section_number: "6126"
section_name: "Flexible schedules; credit hours; accumulation and compensation"
chapter_number: 61
chapter_name: "HOURS OF WORK"
subchapter_number: "II"
subchapter_name: "FLEXIBLE AND COMPRESSED WORK SCHEDULES"
part_number: "III"
part_name: "EMPLOYEES"
positive_law: true
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Added Pub. L. 97–221, § 2(a)(2), July 23, 1982, 96 Stat. 230.)"
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# § 6126. Flexible schedules; credit hours; accumulation and compensation

**(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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**Source Credit**: (Added Pub. L. 97–221, § 2(a)(2), July 23, 1982, 96 Stat. 230.)