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A flexible work schedule is an alternative to the traditional 9 to
5, 40-hour work week. It allows employees to vary their arrival and/or
departure times. Under some policies, employees must work a prescribed number
of hours a pay period and be present during a daily "core time." The
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
does not address flexible work schedules. Alternative work arrangements such as
flexible work schedules are a matter of agreement between the employer and the
employee (or the employee's representative). The Department of Labor has
conducted numerous surveys and published articles and reports on the
subject.
DOL Web Pages on This
Topic
"When Can an
Employee’s Scheduled Hours of Work Be Changed?"
Information about
work hours from the elaws FLSA Advisor.
Index of
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Reports on Workers on Flexible and Shift
Schedules
A report from BLS on the trend towards flexible work
schedules.
BLS' Monthly Labor
Review Online (MLR) article stating that from 1991 to 1997, the percentage
of full-time wage and salary workers with flexible work schedules on their
principal job increased from 15.1 percent to 27.6 percent.
MLR
Article: "Over One Quarter of Full-time Workers Have Flexible
Schedules"
More information on flexible schedules.
MLR
Article: "Flexible Work Schedules: What Are We Trading Off to Get
Them?"
More information on flexible schedules.
MLR
Article: "Executives most likely to have flexible work hours"
More
information on flexible schedules.
MLR
Article: "Flexible Schedules and Shift Work: Replacing the '9-To-5'
Workday?"
More information on flexible schedules.
MLR
Article: "Incidence of Flexible Work Schedules Increases"
More
information on flexible schedules.
MLR Article:
"Workers with Longer Workweeks Often Earn More Per Hour"
More
information on flexible schedules.
Coverage Under the
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) Fact Sheet
General information about
who is covered by the FLSA.
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