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Work Schedules

CMS has established and supports a variety of flexible work arrangements that enables employees to balance work with their personal and family life.

Flexible Work Schedule

Flextime is a work schedule whereby employees work 10 days per pay period with a daily 8-hour tour of duty. Employees may vary arrival/departure times daily. In Central Office, employees may report for work anytime between 6:30 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. Regional Office reporting times may vary.

Compressed Work Schedules (CWS)

"5-4/9" and "4/10"

These are work schedules whereby employees complete the 80-hour basic biweekly work requirement in less than 10 workdays. CWSs are fixed schedules. There is no employee flexibility in daily reporting/departure times. Under a CWS, employees select a fixed daily arrival/departure time in accordance with Central/Regional Office established reporting hours.

"5-4/9" CWS
An employee works 8 (eight) 9-hour workdays and 1 (one) 8-hour workday with one scheduled day off (Monday or Friday) during the 2-week pay period.

In Central Office, employees working a 9-hour tour of duty select a fixed daily arrival time between 6:00 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. Regional Office fixed arrival times may vary.

"4/10" CWS
An employee works 4 (four), 10-hour workdays each week of the pay period with one scheduled day off (Monday or Friday) each week of the pay period.

In Central Office, employees working a 10-hour tour of duty select a fixed daily arrival time between 6:00 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. Regional Office fixed arrival times may vary.

Credit Hours

Only employees working the 8-hour flexible work schedule may earn credit hours.

Credit hours are those hours in excess of an employee's 8-hour daily tour of duty that an employee elects to work, with supervisory approval, in order to vary the length of a future workday or workweek.

Credit hours may be earned and used in 1/4- hour increments. Full-time employees may accumulate and carry forward indefinitely from one pay period to the next a maximum of 24 credit hours. For part-time employees, the maximum number of credit hours that may be carried forward to the subsequent pay period cannot exceed 1/4 of the hours in the employee's biweekly basic work requirement.