May an employee who is required to work during his or her regularly scheduled basic (nonovertime) tour of duty on a holiday earn compensatory time off instead of holiday premium pay for that work?
A11. No. An employee must receive holiday premium pay for work performed during his or her regularly scheduled basic (nonovertime) tour of duty on a holiday or a day treated as a holiday (e.g., 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.). Because a holiday is considered part of a full-time employees regular 40-hour workweek (or 80 hours biweekly for employees on certain kinds of flexible or compressed work schedules), work performed during a regularly scheduled basic (nonovertime) tour of duty on a holiday is not considered overtime work.
