How many hours of pay are employees on flexible or compressed work schedules entitled to receive for a holiday or in lieu of holiday?
A3. An employee on a compressed work schedule who does not work because of a holiday receives his or her rate of basic pay for the number of hours he or she was scheduled to work on the holiday. (See 5 CFR 610.406.) A full-time employee on a flexible work schedule is entitled to 8 hours of pay on a holiday when the employee does not work. (See 5 U.S.C. 6124.) For most employees, two holidays will fall within the same pay period beginning December 16 and ending December 29, 2001. Therefore, full-time employees on a 5/4-9 flexible schedule (or other flexible schedules under which employees work more than 8 hours a day) must make arrangements to work extra hours during other regularly scheduled workdays (or take annual leave or use credit hours or compensatory time off) in order to fulfill the 80-hour biweekly work requirement.
