 Unique Work Schedules
Work Shifts
Day Shift
- All GS employees
- Craft and non-craft employees
Evening Shift
- 3:10 p.m.-11:10 p.m.
- 15% night differential pay
Midnight Shift
- 10:50 p.m.-6:50 a.m.
- 15% night differential pay
Fixed Tour with Credit Hours
This is a schedule in which, within a biweekly pay period of ten (10) workdays, the regular tour of duty consists of ten (10) eight-hour days, with a fixed starting and ending time coinciding with the normal hours of operations, within flexible bands.
Flexitime/Flexible Bands with Credit Hours
This is a schedule in which, the specific periods of the workday during which employees have the ability to vary their arrival and departure times within the parameters established by their Office Chiefs.
[Example: For flexitime work schedules (day shift), the bands could be 6 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., Monday through Friday].
Credit hours are the number of hours in excess of eight (8) in one (1) day or forty (40) in one (1) week in which an employee, on a fixed hour schedule. This allows employees to vary the length of a succeeding workday or workweek. Employees on a fixed hour schedule or Flexitime/Flexible Bands may earn up to twenty-four (24) credit hours per pay period. Employees may not work credit hours on a 5/4-9 or 4/1 0 Plan.
5/4-9 Plan
This plan includes the following schedule within a biweekly pay period of ten (10) workdays:
- eight (8) nine-hour days,
- one (1) eight-hour day, and
- one (1) non-workday
all with pre-established fixed hours
4/10 Plan
This plan includes four (4), 10 hour days, each workweek within a biweekly pay period of ten (10) workdays with pre-established days and fixed hours.
Holidays
A full-time employee is entitled to pay for a Government holiday in accordance with his or her regular work schedule for that day (i.e., nine hours of pay for a regularly scheduled nine hour day and eight hours of pay for a regularly scheduled eight hour day).
Overtime Opportunities
Bureau employees may have the opportunity to work overtime. However, all overtime is schedule according to the needs of each Office.
Paid Holidays
| New Year's Day |
| Martin Luther King's Birthday |
| Presidents' Day |
| Memorial Day |
| Independence Day |
| Labor Day |
| Columbus Day |
| Veterans' Day |
| Thanksgiving |
| Christmas Day |
Year-End Shutdown
The Bureau shuts down at the end of the year between the Christmas and New Year holiday. Annual leave, Compensatory Time, Credit Hours, or Leave Without Pay, or any combination of any of the above, must be used the cover the amount of leave that will be taken.
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