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Hours of Work

Daylight Savings Time  |  Clean–up Time  |  Flexitime/Alternate Work Schedules
Limitations/Procedures  |  Lunch/Breaks  |  Rest Periods  |  Starting and Quitting Times

Daylight Savings Time

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  1. Giving employees who are working at the time of conversion to daylight savings time the option of using one hour as a method of maintaining their regular eight hour shift. Tidewater Virginia Federal Employees Metal Trades Council, 21 FLRA 497 [N]. Reversed in Norfolk Navy Public Works Center v. Federal Labor Relations Authority, 814 F.2d 982 (4th Cir. 1987).
  2. Obligating the agency to assign an extra hour of work to graveyard shift employees who decline to be charged annual leave or leave without pay to compensate for the hour of work lost due to the conversion to daylight savings time. AFGE, Local 1857, 34 FLRA 909, Proposals 1, 2 and 3 [NN]

Clean–up Time
  1. Five minutes paid time before and after the lunch period for cleanup. AFGE, Local 3231, 17 FLRA 554 [NN]. Reversed and remanded to Federal Labor Relations Authority in American Federation of Government Employees v. Federal Labor Relations Authority, 791 F.2d 979 (D.C. Cir. 1986). On remand, AFGE, Local 3231, 25 FLRA 600 [NN]
  2. Agency to allow employees 15 minutes of duty time to reach their duty stations and 15 minutes of duty time at the end of the shift for personal hygiene and changing of clothing. AFGE, Local 2094, 19 FLRA 1027, Proposal 1 [NN]
  3. Agency to give employees a reasonable amount of time to wash up and change uniforms. NTEU, Chapter 153, 21 FLRA 1116, Proposal 7 [NN]
  4. Giving the employees ten minutes at the beginning and end of each shift to change clothes. AFSCME, Local 2477, 23 FLRA 204, Proposal 3 [NN]
  5. Authorizing technicians ten minutes to change clothes at the start and end of their work tours. NAGE, 26 FLRA 515, Proposal 2 [NN]
  6. Setting aside periods in the work day for make-ready and clean–up time in which employees could obtain and replace tools required for their jobs, and change clothing soiled by the work. NFFE, Local 1655, 26 FLRA 654, Proposal 10 [NN]
  7. Cleanup time prior to lunch at the end of the workday. IBEW, Local 2080, 32 FLRA 347, Provision 6 [NN]
  8. Clean up time prior to lunch and at the end of the workday. IBEW, Local 2080, 32 FLRA 347, Provision 6 [NN]
  9. Requiring the agency to provide paid time to employees to clean up before lunch and at the end of the day. NFFE, Local 1655, 35 FLRA 740 [NN]
  10. Cleanup time for all technician employees at the end of a shift and before lunch. NAGE, Locals R12–122, R12–222, 38 FLRA 295, Proposal 4 [NN]
  11. Allowing employees 10 minutes for personal cleanup time before lunch periods and at the end of the workdays. AFGE, Local 2022, 40 FLRA 371, Proposal 3 [N]
  12. Employees will be allowed 15 minutes prior to the end of their tours of duty for storage of equipment, personal cleanup, and change of clothing. NAGE, 40 FLRA 657, Provision 2 [N]
  13. Employees will be allowed time for changing and cleanup prior to the meal period and at the end of the work day. AFGE, Local 1513, 41 FLRA 589, Provision 3 [N]

Flexitime/Alternate Work Schedules

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  1. Allowing management to cancel alternative work schedules only when certain conditions are met. AFGE, Local 2151, 3 FLRA 248 [N]
  2. Agency to establish flexible work hours at an Area Office. NFFE, Local 1789, 4 FLRA 708 [N]
  3. Establishing the work hours in a day, core time days, and the maximum hours per day which may be worked under a flexible work scheduling arrangement. AFGE, Local 2875, 5 FLRA 441, Proposals 1, 2, and 3 [N]
  4. Maintaining the flexible work schedule an employee has in his or her position of record while on an involuntary detail. AFGE, Local 32, 14 FLRA 6, Proposal 1 [N]
  5. Establishing a work schedule allowing employees to work six weeks and then take four weeks off. Maritime Metal Trades Council, 18 FLRA 326, Proposal 5 [NN]
  6. Establishing a trial compressed workweek program. NTEU, Chapter 204, 19 FLRA 234 [NN]
  7. Setting a 30% maximum on the number of employees who may be absent on a scheduled workday under a compressed work schedule. NTEU, Chapter 65, 20 FLRA 35 [N]
  8. Establishing a pilot flexitime program. AFGE, Local 644, 21 FLRA 658, Proposal 14 [N]
  9. Establishing a flexible and compressed work schedule. AFGE, Local 3804, 21 FLRA 870, Proposal 9 [N]
  10. Employees to work weeks composed of four, ten–hour days. AFGE, Local 1934, 23 FLRA 872 [N]
  11. Union officials may earn credit hours under the agency‘s alternate work schedule for participating in certain labor–management meetings scheduled by the agency. NTEU, Chapter 65, 25 FLRA 384 [N]
  12. Compressed work schedules for employees at their election. NFFE, Local 1655, 26 FLRA 654, Proposal 5 [N]. Reversed in Illinois National Guard v. Federal Labor Relations Authority, 854 F.2d 1396 (D.C. Cir. 1988).
  13. A four–day week for nonstandard tours of duty. NFFE, Local 1655, 26 FLRA 654, Proposal 2 (last sentence) [N]
  14. Enabling National Guard technicians to follow compressed work schedules (four ten–hour days per week). NAGE, Local R14–76, 27 FLRA 147 [N]. Reversed in Wyoming Air National Guard v. Federal Labor Relations Authority, 854 F.2d 1396 (D.C. Cir. 1988).
  15. Compressed work schedules for guard technicians. NAGE, Local R12–167, 27 FLRA 349 [N]. Reversed in California National Guard v. Federal Labor Relations Authority, 854 F.2d 1396 (D.C. Cir. 1988).
  16. Establishing alternative work schedules for National Guard Technicians. NAGE, 27 FLRA 801, Proposal 1 [N]
  17. Creating a variety of alternate work schedules for employees. NFFE, Local 642, 27 FLRA 862, Proposal 3 [N]
  18. Implementing of the Baylor Plan, which gives the Administrator of the Veterans Affairs discretion to establish an administrative work week that includes two twelve hour shifts. National Union of Hospital and Heal Care Employees, District 1199, 28 FLRA 435, Proposal 20 [N]
  19. Applying an alternative work schedule to nonunit employees. AFSCME, Local 2027, 28 FLRA 621 Proposal 2 [NN]
  20. Allowing detailed employees to continue their alternative work schedules. NTEU, Chapter 22, 29 FLRA 348, PSC Proposal 6 and PRP Proposal 5 [N]
  21. Management and the union to consider an alternate work schedule and the development of the starting and closing times of the school day. Overseas Education Association, 29 FLRA 734, Proposal 38 [N]
  22. Earning credit hours by employees while engaged in labor–management activities. Internal Revenue Service, 30 FLRA 690, Proposal 2 [N]
  23. Providing for flexitime and modified work week. NFFE, Council of VA Locals, 31 FLRA 360, Proposal 22, Sections 1 – 6 [N]
  24. Implementing a flexible and compressed work schedule program. NAGE, 31 FLRA 1117 [N]. Reversed in Washington State National Guard v. Federal Labor Relations Authority, No. 88-1397 (D.C. Cir. 1988).
  25. Requiring the agency to bargain over alternative work schedules for technicians employed in the Missouri National Guard. NAGE, Local R14–73, 37 FLRA 490 [NN]
  26. Providing a tie–breaking procedure to settle conflicts among employees who select the same alternate work schedules. NTEU, 39 FLRA 27, Provision 1 [N]
  27. Prescribing the bases on which an agency can restrict and/or deny the use of both flexitime and compressed work schedules. NTEU, 52 FLRA 1321, Article 26, Sections 2(B) and (C) and 6(A) and (B) [N]
  28. The agency to consider the use of alternative work schedule arrangements for the five affected technicians in addressing patient care issues. NAGE, Local R1–109, 56 FLRA 1043 [N]
  29. Requiring the agency to change the Materials Expediter position in the 303rd Fighter Squadron from its current work schedule of Monday through Friday, 7:00 a.m. to 15:30 p.m., to a compressed work schedule of Monday through Thursday, 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. AFGE, Local 2361, 57 FLRA 766, Proposal 1 [N]
  30. Setting a 3–months trial period with negotiations for a different permanent work schedule taking place prior to the end of the trial period, at the union’s request. AFGE, Local 2361, 57 FLRA 766, Proposal 2 [N]
  31. Requiring the agency to keep in place the start time of the workday for employees on the CWS agreed to by the Seattle Union/Management Council on September 5, 2001. NFFE, Local 1998, 60 FLRA 141, Proposal 1 [N]
  32. Requiring the start time to be 6:45 a.m. and not 7:00 a.m. NFFE, Local 1998, 60 FLRA 141, Proposal 2 [N]
  33. Seeking a flexible work schedule, maxiflex option with credit hours, which is currently unavailable. NFFE, Local 1998, 60 FLRA 141, Proposal 3, Part 3 [N]
  34. Seeking additional part–time slots and would provide an option for those employees who need to leave work earlier than the ending time would permit under a 7:00 a.m. start time. NFFE, Local 1998, 60 FLRA 141, Proposal 3, Part 4 [N]

Limitations/Procedures

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  1. Intermittent employees to be removed before the employer could reduce the hours of work of other employees. The National Council of CSA Locals, AFGE, AFL–CIO, 3 FLRA 4 [NN]
  2. Hours of work to be reduced only for “just cause.” AFGE, Local 1622, 4 FLRA 480 [N]
  3. Establishing the first and last fifteen minutes of each workday as time devoted to packing and unpacking files. NTEU, 8 FLRA 197, Proposal 7 [NN]
  4. Establishing a “sign–in/sign–out register” to record arrivals and departures including overtime and leave. AFGE, Local 1760, 8 FLRA 202 [N]
  5. Limiting the length of standby tours and prohibiting the assignment of work after the employee completes three hours of standby work. IAFF, Local F–116, 9 FLRA 700, Proposal III [NN]
  6. At least three days advance written notice of a change in an employee's basic work week or shift hours in an emergency. LIUNA, Local 1267, 14 FLRA 686, Proposal 2 [NN]
  7. Making check–in and flight or boat underway time hours of work. NAGE, Local R–12–33 and NFFE Local 1374, 14 FLRA 275 [NN]
  8. Agency to grant employees 20 minutes paid time for banking purposes on pay days and to grant employees 20 minutes paid time before or after the unpaid lunch period on a daily basis. National Council of SSA Field Locals, AFGE, 17 FLRA 924, Proposals 1 and 2 [NN]
  9. Agency to allow employees additional non-production time to fill out certain new forms. AFGE, Local 32, 18 FLRA 305, Proposal 2 [NN]
  10. Establishing hours when the office will be open to the public. AFGE, Local 3231, 22 FLRA 868, Proposal 1 (first portion) [NN]
  11. Employees may use the first hour of the day for training and manual maintenance. AFGE, Local 3231, 22 FLRA 868, Proposal 1 (second portion) [NN]
  12. Establishing as the basic work week 8 hour days Monday through Friday, except when this would seriously handicap agency functions and which provided that the hours of duty currently applied would continue for the life of the agreement. Coordinating Committee of Unions, 29 FLRA 1436, Proposal 1 [NN]
  13. Management to set aside time each workday for employees to engage in planning and conference. AFGE, Local 1815, 29 FLRA 1447, Provision 1, Section 1 [NN]
  14. Two–weeks’ notice of changes in hours of work. AFGE, Local 85, 30 FLRA 400, Proposal 10 [NN]
  15. Permitting employees to have up to 30 paid minutes per day to engage in non-work activities. Fort Bragg Association of Educators, NEA, 30 FLRA 508, Proposal 42 [NN]
  16. A minimum of 5 hours to be set aside for sleeping purposes. AFGE, Local 2354, 30 FLRA 1130, Provision 5 [NN]
  17. Requiring the agency to change the hours that an agency regional office is open to the public. National Labor Relations Board Union, Local 21, 36 FLRA 853 [NN]
  18. Requiring the agency to extend the hours of a part–time dental assistant to provide coverage of the dental assistant duties. NAGE, Local R5–184, 51 FLRA 386, Proposal 3 [N, (b)(l)]
  19. Requiring the agency to endeavor to make the automated system available to examiners whenever they are in “in–pay status.” POPA, 56 FLRA 69, Proposal 21 [N]

Lunch/Breaks

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  1. Giving employees a 45–minute lunch break without an extension of the work day. AFGE, Local 3231, 17 FLRA 554 [NN]. Remanded to the Federal Labor Relations Authority in American Federation of Government Employees v. Federal Labor Relations Authority,791 F.2d 979 (D.C. Cir. 1986). On remand, Social Security Administration, 25 FLRA 600 [NN]
  2. Setting out the time frame within which lunch breaks will be taken. NTEU, Chapter 153, 21 FLRA 1116, Proposal 5 [N]
  3. Employees working three hours in excess of their eight hour shift will be given an opportunity to purchase a meal or will be given time off to obtain a meal. AFGE, Council of Prison Locals, Local 171, 23 FLRA 224, Provision 3 [N]
  4. Employees ordinarily will not be required to take meal breaks during the 6:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. period. NAGE, Local R14–8, 24 FLRA 126, Proposal 4 [N]
  5. Unit employees will be given a duty–free lunch period upon request. Overseas Education Association, 29 FLRA 628, Proposal 5a [NN]. Reversed and remanded to the Federal Labor Relations Authority in Overseas Education Association v. Federal Labor Relations Authority, 877 F.2d 960 (D.C. Cir. 1989). On remand, Overseas Education Association, 39 FLRA 153, Proposal 5a [N]
  6. Agency to make every reasonable effort to provide unit employees with a duty–free lunch period. Overseas Education Association, 29 FLRA 628, Proposal 7e [NN]. Reversed and remanded to the Federal Labor Relations Authority in Overseas Education Association v. Federal Labor Relations Authority, 877 F.2d 960 (D.C. Cir. 1989). On remand, Overseas Education Association, 39 FLRA 153, Proposal 7e [N]
  7. Requiring that unit employees be given a duty-free lunch period and that the length of the lunch period be developed jointly by the agency and the union. Overseas Education Association, 29 FLRA 734, Proposal 37 [NN]
  8. Prohibiting the assignment of duties during the scheduled paid duty free lunch period. Fort Bragg Association of Educators, 30 FLRA 508, Proposal 9 [NN]
  9. Reducing the lunch period for the day shift marine crew at the Plum Island Animal Disease Center from 1 hour to one half hour. AFGE, Local 1940, 37 FLRA 1058 [N]
  10. If an employee is precluded from taking a scheduled morning break because the employee is involved in a hearing, the agency would be required to make every attempt to find a replacement and allow the employee to take the scheduled break. AFGE, Local 1760, 46 FLRA 1285 [NN]
  11. Relating to a duty–free lunch period for bargaining unit employees. Fort Bragg Association of Educators, 49 FLRA 333, Proposal 3 [N]
  12. Requiring the agency to maintain the status quo with regard to unpaid meal periods until construction of the new airport terminal at Philadelphia Airport is completed. National Association of Agricultural Employees, Branch II, 57 FLRA 424, status quo proposals [PN, (b)(1)]
  13. Prohibiting the agency from implementing unpaid meal periods for Plant Protection Quarantine Officers' during shifts occurring on Sundays or holidays, or that are scheduled as overtime. National Association of Agricultural Employees, Branch II, 57 FLRA 424, Proposal 3 in the Philadelphia case [NN, (a)(2)(A)]

Rest Periods

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  1. Providing Graphic Control Operators with two uninterrupted rest periods during each eight hour tour of duty from the constant attention to duty. AFGE, Local 3511, 12 FLRA 76, Proposal 30 [N]
  2. Prohibiting the agency from establishing a set break schedule for an employee. AFGE, Local 3342, 19 FLRA 1100 [N]
  3. Periodic rest breaks for employees who work at video display terminals. AFGE, National Council of Field Locals, 24 FLRA 842, Proposal 1, Part D.1 [N]
  4. Rest periods on duty time. New York State Nurses Association, 30 FLRA 706, Proposal 15 [N]
  5. Stating that management may not schedule rest periods during the first or last half hour of a workday. New York State Nurses Association, 30 FLRA 706, Proposal 15, Section 10.05 [N]
  6. The timing of rest periods will be agreed to by the steward and supervisor for each department. AFGE, Local 1808, 30 FLRA 1236, Provision 11 [NN]
  7. Maintaining the practice of providing the Agency’s Dietetic Service employees with one daily 30 minute break period. NAGE, 32 FLRA 206 [NN]
  8. Allowing employees to take rest periods of up to 30 minutes by adding various periods of non-duty time to the normal duty day. NAGE, Local R1–109, 37 FLRA 448, Proposal 2, subsection (c) [NN]
  9. Seeking to maintain the parties’ practice of permitting certain employees to take 30-minutes paid rest periods until the negotiability of the union’s proposals is decided. NAGE, Local R1–109, 37 FLRA 448, Proposal 2 [NN]

Starting and Quitting Times

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  1. Reinstating one of three staggered starting and quitting times. NTEU, Chapter 66, 1 FLRA 927 [N]
  2. Work day will be 8:00-3:30 (Monday through Thursday) and 8:00-3:00 (Friday). Fort Bragg Association of Educators, 30 FLRA 508 [NN (a)(1)]. Reversed in National Education Association v. Federal Labor Relations Authority, 870 F.2d 698 (D.C. Cir. 1989).
  3. Changes in starting and quitting time of shifts worked by weather forecasters and technicians at the Honolulu Weather Service Forecast Office. National Weather Service Employees Organization, 37 FLRA 392 [N]
  4. Providing for a “normal duty day” extending from 7:45 to 3:15. National Education Association, Laurel Bay Teachers Association, 51 FLRA 733 [N]
  5. Requiring the agency to schedule, without exception, its pumpwell employees on the fourth day of BAMS evolutions to either begin work at their normal start times or work fourteen days. Metal Trades Council, 57 FLRA 450 [NN, GWR]
  6. Establishing the starting and quitting times of the day shift and requiring the parties to negotiate changes in the workweek or tour of duty before such changes are made, including the solicitation of employee's view. AFGE, 58 FLRA 331 [NN, LAW]

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