---
kind: "section"
citation: "45 C.F.R. § 1176.2"
title: "45"
number: "1176.2"
heading: "Definitions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/45/1176.2"
---

# §1176.2. Definitions.

- (a) Part-time employment means employment of 16 to 32 hours a week under a schedule consisting of an equal or varied number of hours per day, whether in a position which would be part-time without regard to the Act or one established to allow job-sharing or comparable arrangements, but does not include employment on a temporary or intermittent basis.
- (b) **Career employment—** includes competitive and excepted service employees in tenure groups I and II.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: Federal Employees Part-Time Career Employment Act of 1978, Pub. L. 95-437, 92 Stat. 1055, 5 U.S.C. 3401-3408.

### Source

Source: 46 FR 35647, July 10, 1981, unless otherwise noted.