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[CITE: 5USC6126]

 
             TITLE 5--GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
 
                           PART III--EMPLOYEES
 
                     Subpart E--Attendance and Leave
 
                        CHAPTER 61--HOURS OF WORK
 
          SUBCHAPTER II--FLEXIBLE AND COMPRESSED WORK SCHEDULES
 
Sec. 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.

(Added Pub. L. 97-221, Sec. 2(a)(2), July 23, 1982, 96 Stat. 230.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 6121, 6123, 6132 of this 
title.
