Public Law 119-73 (01/23/2026)

5 U.S.C. § 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)
section 6122 of this title Any employee who is on a flexible schedule program under 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.

Pub. L. 97–221, § 2(a)(2)96 Stat. 230(Added , , .)