[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 5, Volume 1, Parts 1 to 699]
[Revised as of January 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 5CFR550.1002]

[Page 540-541]
 
                    TITLE 5--ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
 
                CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
 
PART 550--PAY ADMINISTRATION (GENERAL)--Table of Contents
 
    Subpart J--Adjustment of Work Schedules for Religious Observances
 
Sec. 550.1002  Compensatory time off for religious observances.

    (a) These regulations are issued pursuant to title IV of Public Law 
95-390, enacted September 29, 1978. Under the law and these regulations, 
an employee whose personal religious beliefs require the abstention from 
work during certain periods of time may elect to engage in overtime work 
for time lost for meeting those religious requirements.
    (b) To the extent that such modifications in work schedules do not 
interfere with the efficient accomplishment of an agency's mission, the 
agency shall in each instance afford the employee the opportunity to 
work compensatory overtime and shall in each instance grant compensatory 
time off to an employee requesting such time off for religious 
observances when the employee's personal religious beliefs require that 
the employee abstain from work during certain periods of the workday or 
workweek.
    (c) For the purpose stated in paragraph (b) of this section, the 
employee may work such compensatory overtime before or after the grant 
of compensatory time off. A grant of advanced compensatory time off 
should be repaid

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by the appropriate amount of compensatory overtime work within a 
reasonable amount of time. Compensatory overtime shall be credited to an 
employee on an hour for hour basis or authorized fractions thereof. 
Appropriate records will be kept of compensatory overtime earned and 
used.
    (d) The premium pay provisions for overtime work in subpart A of 
part 550 of title 5, Code of Federal Regulations, and section 7 of the 
Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended, do not apply to 
compensatory overtime work performed by an employee for this purpose.

[43 FR 46288, Oct. 6, 1978, as amended at 51 FR 23036, June 25, 1986]