---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 6124"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "6124"
heading: "Flexible schedules; holidays"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/6124"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart E — Attendance and Leave"
  - "Chapter 61 — Hours of Work"
  - "Subchapter II — Flexible and Compressed Work Schedules"
---

# §6124. Flexible schedules; holidays


Notwithstanding sections [6103](/usc/5/6103.md) and [6104](/usc/5/6104.md) of this title, if any [employee](/usc/5/6121.md?p=2) on a flexible schedule under [section 6122 of this title](/usc/5/6122.md) is relieved or prevented from working on a day designated as a holiday by Federal statute or Executive order, such [employee](/usc/5/6121.md?p=2) is entitled to [pay](/usc/5/7511.md?p=a-4) with respect to that day for 8 hours (or, in the case of a part-time [employee](/usc/5/6121.md?p=2), an appropriate portion of the [employee](/usc/5/6121.md?p=2)’s biweekly [basic work requirement](/usc/5/6121.md?p=3) as determined under regulations prescribed by the [Office](/usc/5/5402.md?p=3) of Personnel Management).


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 97–221, § 2(a)(2), July 23, 1982, 96 Stat. 229.)