FLEXIBLE AND COMPRESSED WORK SCHEDULE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP92-00455R000100050025-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 19, 2001
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: March 24, 1980
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
FROM Harry E. Fitzwater
Director of Personnel Policy,
Planning, and Management
SUBJECT Flexible and Compressed Work Schedule
1. Action Requested: It is requested that you approve a change in
Agency policy regarding flexible and compressed work schedules.
2. Background:
a. The Flexible and Compressed Work Schedules Act of 1978 permitted
Federal agencies to experiment with alternative work schedules and to
waive certain overtime requirements contained in both Title 5 U.S.C. and
the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The Act also made the Office of
Personnel Management (OPM) responsible for defining the information
needed to evaluate experiments with alternative work schedules and
required agencies to report the results of their experiments to OPM.
b. Before OPM published the reporting requirements for experiments
with flexible and compressed work schedules, it was decided that a suffi-
cient number of variations of alternative work schedules were possible for
experimentation that the Agency would not have to participate under the Act
of 1978, thereby avoiding reports to OPM which may have compromised our
security. To experiment with alternative work schedules under our own
authority and still comply with FLSA, flexible and compressed work sched-
ules had to be established within the framework of the 40-hour workweek.
c. In October 19.89, you approved of th experimenting with
flexible and compressed work schedules in HN Many components STATINTL
are currently experimenting with a variety o a ernative work schedules.
Some components have expressed a desire to establish a 5/4-9 compressed
work schedule (for example, see attached letter from D/NFAC dated 29
February 1980). This has become popular in a number of other agencies. A
5/4-9 plan cannot be established under current CIA authority since this
plan requires a framework of 80-hours in a pay period (that is, 45 hours
the first week and 35 hours the second week), and our current policy
requires that experiments use a framework of 40-hours in a workweek.
Under the FLSA hours worked in excess of 40 in a workweek must be con-
sidered overtime. One of the purposes of the Flexible and Compressed Work
Schedules Act of 1978 is to allow agencies to experiment with alternative
work schedules without incurring overtime costs.
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SUBJECT: Flexible and Compressed Work Schedule
d. As a result of frequent contacts with OPM, Position Management
and Compensation Division learned that a draft of the reporting require-
ments had been prepared. A review of the reporting requirements revealed
that they would not compromise our security. Further exploration with OPM
also revealed that the Agency could participate under the Act of 1978 and
thus be exempt from some of the overtime requirements of the FLSA. This
exemption from overtime would allow the Agency to use an 80-hour pay period
as a framework for experimenting with alternative work schedules.
3. Recommendation: I recommend that, upon notification to and
acceptance by OPM of the Agency's request to participate in the Govern-
ment-wide experiments being conducted under the Flexible and Compressed
Work Schedules Act of 1978, the Agency's framework for experimenting with
alternative work schedules be changed from a 40-hour workweek to an 80-hour
pay period.
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United States of America
Office of
Personnel Management Washington. D.C 20415
ALTERNATIVE WORK SCHEDULES
NOTICE OF INTENT TO EXPERIMENT
Name-and address of organization Central Intelligence
Agency, Washington, D.C. 20505
telephone nu
Number of employees Ciassified' ~~.+ f?. f! ~JiY~f.llpfJ3ll.~l 1/$J''p-
Intelligence Information, Collection
and Analysis
Is your organization currently on flexitime' r-X-1 yes= no
If your organization is not on flexitime, what is your
current daytime operating schedule?
Hours a.m. to p.m.
Days through
Are evening and/or nightshifts presently used? =Yes=no
Type of alternative work schedule to be tested (describe
briefly)
5/4-9 and Variable Day
Proposed starting date April 28,
1980
Office of Personnel Management
Compensation Division
Room 3353
PP 60-6
Alternative Work Schedules
Feb. 1979
Experimental Program
Expires
1900 E Street, N.W,
'10-1-79
Washington, D.C. 20415
NARS-exempt
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