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 PUBLIC LAW 97-221—JULY 23, 1982

96 STAT. 227

Public Law 97-221 97th Congress An Act To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide permanent authorization for Federal agencies to use flexible and compressed employee work schedules.

July 23, 1982 [S. 2240]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That this Act may Federal be cited as the "Federal Employees Flexible and Compressed Work Employees Flexible and Schedules Act of 1982". Compressed SEC. 2. (a) Chapter 61 of title 5, United States Code, is amended— Work Schedules Act of (1) by inserting before section 6101 the following: 1982. "SUBCHAPTER I-GENERAL PROVISIONS"; and (2) by adding at the end thereof the following new subchapter: "SUBCHAPTER II-FLEXIBLE AND COMPRESSED WORK SCHEDULES "§ 6120. Purpose "The Congress finds that the use of flexible and compressed work schedules has the potential to improve productivity in the Federal Government and provide greater service to the public. "§ 6121. Definitions "For purposes of this subchapter— "(1) 'agency* means any Executive agency, any military department, and the Library of Congress; "(2) 'employee' has the meaning given it by section 2105 of this title; "(3) 'basic work requirement' means the number of hours, excluding overtime hours, which an employee is required to work or is required to account for by leave or otherwise; "(4) 'credit hours' means any hours, within a flexible schedule established under section 6122 of this title, which are in excess of an employee's basic work requirement and which the employee elects to work so as to vary the length of a workweek or a workday; "(5) 'compressed schedule* means— "(A) in the case of a full-time employee, an 80-hour biweekly basic work requirement which is scheduled for less than 10 workdays, and "(B) in the case of a part-time employee, a biweekly basic work requirement of less than 80 hours which is scheduled for less than 10 workdays; "(6) 'overtime hours', when used with respect to flexible schedule programs under sections 6122 through 6126 of this title, means £dl hours in excess of 8 hours in a day or 40 hours in

5 USC 6101 note.

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