Establishment of work schedules.

CFR · 2024-01-01 · US · Title 5

(a) Except when the head of an agency determines that the agency would be seriously handicapped in carrying out its functions or that costs would be substantially increased, he or she shall provide that— (1) Assignments to tours of duty are scheduled in advance of the administrative workweek over periods of not less than 1 week; (2) The basic 40-hour workweek is scheduled on 5 days, Monday through Friday when possible, and the 2 days outside the basic workweek are consecutive; (3) The working hours in each day in the basic workweek are the same; (4) The basic nonovertime workday may not exceed 8 hours; (5) The occurrence of holidays may not affect the designation of the basic workweek; and (6) Breaks in working hours of more than 1 hour may not be scheduled in a basic workday. (b)(1) The head of an agency shall schedule the work of his or her employees to accomplish the mission of the agency. The head of an agency shall schedule an employee's regularly scheduled administrative workweek so that it corresponds with the employee's actual work requirements. (2) When the head of an agency knows in advance of an administrative workweek that the specific days and/or hours of a day actually required of an employee in that administrative workweek will differ from those required in the current administrative workweek, he or she shall reschedule the employee's regularly scheduled administrative workweek to correspond with those specific days and hours. The head of the agency shall infor

official document · source cfr-2024 · id 5:§ 610.121