--- kind: "section" citation: "5 U.S.C. § 6126" title: "5" title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees" number: "6126" heading: "Flexible schedules; credit hours; accumulation and compensation" release: "119-102" date: "2026-07-12" url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/6126" units: - "Part III — Employees" - "Subpart E — Attendance and Leave" - "Chapter 61 — Hours of Work" - "Subchapter II — Flexible and Compressed Work Schedules" --- # §6126. Flexible schedules; credit hours; accumulation and compensation - (a) Subject to any limitation prescribed by the [Office](/usc/5/5402.md?p=3) of Personnel Management or the [agency](/usc/5/6121.md?p=1), a full-time [employee](/usc/5/6121.md?p=2) on a flexible schedule can accumulate not more than 24 [credit hours](/usc/5/6121.md?p=4), and a part-time [employee](/usc/5/6121.md?p=2) can accumulate not more than one-fourth of the hours in such [employee](/usc/5/6121.md?p=2)’s biweekly [basic work requirement](/usc/5/6121.md?p=3), for carryover from a biweekly [pay](/usc/5/7511.md?p=a-4) period to a succeeding biweekly [pay](/usc/5/7511.md?p=a-4) period for credit to the [basic work requirement](/usc/5/6121.md?p=3) for such period. - (b) Any [employee](/usc/5/6121.md?p=2) who is on a flexible schedule program under [section 6122 of this title](/usc/5/6122.md) and who is no longer subject to such a program shall be paid at such [employee](/usc/5/6121.md?p=2)’s then current rate of [basic pay](/usc/5/8401.md?p=4) for— - (1) in the case of a full-time [employee](/usc/5/6121.md?p=2), not more than 24 [credit hours](/usc/5/6121.md?p=4) accumulated by such [employee](/usc/5/6121.md?p=2), or - (2) in the case of a part-time [employee](/usc/5/6121.md?p=2), the number of [credit hours](/usc/5/6121.md?p=4) (not in excess of one-fourth of the hours in such [employee](/usc/5/6121.md?p=2)’s biweekly [basic work requirement](/usc/5/6121.md?p=3)) accumulated by such [employee](/usc/5/6121.md?p=2). ## Source credit (Added Pub. L. 97–221, § 2(a)(2), July 23, 1982, 96 Stat. 230.)