FLEXIBLE HOURS URGED TO EASE RUSH-HOUR CRISIS

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 2, 2008
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: June 29, 1979
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 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. FOR INFORMATION
FLEXIBLE HOURS URGED TO EASE RUSH-HOUR CRISIS
(Washington, D.C.) The Director of the-,Office of Personnel Management
Tuesday, June 26, 1979 Tom Kell
today urged Federal agencies in the Washington,- D.C., area to adopt. flexible
working hours to ease rush-hour commuting problems.
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Campbell said.
"As the major employer in the metropolitan area, the Federal Government
must take a leadership role in initiating action to alleviate this situation,"
One way to do this, he said, is for agencies to adopt alternative work
schedules. This would permit employees to vary their starting and quitting times.
"Flexible and compressed alternative work schedules provide a mechanism for
spreading out rush hours, thereby taking pressure off the public transportation
system during peak traffic periods," Campbell said.
The National Capitol Region of the General Services Administration, which
coordinates hours of work for agencies in the Washington, D.C., area, has agreed to
expedite action on agency requests to convert to alternative work schedules or to
further stagger hours of work.
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d. Whenever alternative work schedules are determined to be
feasible, employees are encouraged to participate on a voluntary basis.
An employee may elect exclusion from a compressed work schedule experi-
ment on grounds of personal hardship.
3. DEFINITIONS
a. Basic work requirement for a full-time employee is 40 hours
in one administrative workweek, distributed according to the pertinent
alternative work schedule. It is not necessarily eight hours per day,
five days per week.
b. Flexible work schedules, or flexitime are any alternative work
schedules wit in w i emp oyees may vary the time at which they report
for duty and depart from work, within overall limits set by component
management. An example of a flexible work schedule is attached (figure 1).
c. Core hours are those hours in a flexible schedule wherein
employees must be present for work.
d. Credit hours are those hours in a flexible work schedule which
exceed anemployee's basic daily work requirement and which the employee
elects to work on his or her own initiative and as a result of personal
preference, so as to vary the length of a succeeding-workday in the same
workweek. These are not overtime hours.
e. Compressed schedules or compressed workweek are alternative
work schedules in which employees fulfill a basic work requirement in
less than five workdays. An example is the four-day workweek, consisting
of four workdays of ten hours each day in a 40-hour workweek (see. Figure 2).
4. RESPONSIBILITIES
a. Operating Officials and Heads of Independent Offices will:.
(1) Establish essential duty hours with minimum staffing
requirements in experimenting components and develop schedules for
providing such coverage.
(2) Propose alternative work schedules for their components
on an experimental basis for the approval of the Deputy Director for
Administration. Such schedules shall provide for 40 work hours per
week. They will be forwarded through the Director of Personnel for
his recommendations and through the Director of Finance to assure
their compatibility with the automated payroll system. Proposals
from Operating Officials will have the concurrence of the Deputy
Director concerned.
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? ? FIGURE 1
FLEXIBLE WORK SCHEDULE
ESSENTIAL STAFFING HOURS
C IBLE CORE TIME
TIrE (Includes 1/2-hour lunch)
6:00 8:00
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FLEXIBLE
TIME
5:00 6:00
P.M.
9-hour essential staffing band established within which
employees may vary starting time but must work or account
for the basic work requirement, e.g., eight hours per day,
five days per week, and must insure minimum coverage level
is maintained during essential staffing hours.
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