{"data":{"id":"us/5-u.s.c.-6126","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"5 U.S.C. § 6126","heading":"Flexible schedules; credit hours; accumulation and compensation","body":"(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.","path":["Title 5—GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES","CHAPTER 61—HOURS OF WORK"],"source_url":"https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/103/xml_usc05@119-103.zip","current_through":"Public Law 119-103 (09/02/2026)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-10T05:55:42Z","sha256":"c164c9b8f6dd1922278e5dba32bb2a61d4efc014e521f0d7468aa7bb245f908e","source_id":"us","stale":false,"prev":"us/5-u.s.c.-6125","next":"us/5-u.s.c.-6127"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}