---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 C.F.R. § 550.1004"
title: "5"
number: "550.1004"
heading: "Employee responsibilities."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/5/550.1004"
---

# §550.1004. Employee responsibilities.

- (a) An employee is required to provide his or her supervisor with a request for religious compensatory time off in advance of the religious observance by following the agency's procedures established in accordance with §§ [550.1005](/cfr/5/550.1005.md) and [550.1006](/cfr/5/550.1006.md).
- (b) At the time the religious compensatory time off is requested, the employee must provide the agency with the following information:
  - (1) The name and/or description of the religious observance that is the basis of the employee's request to be absent from work in order to meet the employee's personal religious requirements;
  - (2) The date(s) and time(s) the employee plans to be absent to participate in the religious observances identified in [paragraph (b)(1)](#b-1) of this section; and
  - (3) The date(s) and time(s) the employee plans to perform overtime work to earn religious compensatory time off to make up for the absence.
- (c) An employee must comply with the agency's procedures for requesting religious compensatory time off, including any time limitations prescribed under [§ 550.1006](/cfr/5/550.1006.md).
- (d) In the event that an adjustment to the dates and times of planned overtime work is required due to unforeseen circumstances, the employee must submit for approval a revised schedule to reflect those changes.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 5550a.

### Source

Source: 84 FR 17939, Apr. 29, 2019, unless otherwise noted.

### Source

Source: 33 FR 12458, Sept. 4, 1968, unless otherwise noted.