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title: "5 U.S.C. § 6126"
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# 5 U.S.C. § 6126 - Flexible schedules; credit hours; accumulation and compensation
## Text
(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 employees 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 employees 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 employees biweekly basic work requirement) accumulated by such employee.
(Added Pub. L. 97221, § 2(a)(2), July 23, 1982, 96 Stat. 230.)