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Alternative Work Schedules
The alternative work schedules offer employees work schedule options that promote work/life balance while still meeting organizational objectives. Please see P761 (pdf) or an online overview of the related policy changes for additional information regarding alternative work schedules.
4.5/40
- Managers may assign a 4.5/40 schedule that requires a worker to work four 9-hour days, plus 4 hours each Friday (see P761 [pdf]).
5/40
- Employees work a standard, on-site 8-hour day, 5 days a week (Monday through Friday).
- Hourly employees on a 5/40 schedule must take a lunch break of at least 30 minutes.
9/80 - A Friday, 9/80 - B Friday
- Over a two-week period, the hours worked total 80.
- During one week, employee works four, 9-hour days and one, 8-hour day. During the alternate week, employee works four, 9-hour days and receives one day off on Friday.
- As a general rule, workers on the 9/80 schedule must report for work between 7:00 am and 8:00 am each scheduled workday and account for nine hours (or eight hours if it is their “short day”), plus the lunch break.
- The schedule must include time for a lunch break of at least30 minutes. If a lunch period of 45 minutes or 60 minutes is taken, the schedule for the 9-hour day would add 15 minutes or 30 minutes respectively to the work day. (For example, a 9-hour day starting at 8:00 am ends at 5:30 pm unless a one-hour lunch break is taken, in which case the day ends at 6:00.)
4/10
- The 4/10 work schedule may only be approved for programmatic or operational reasons.
- Employee works four, 10-hour days in a calendar week. The employee is not required to work the fifth day, which may be any day of the week, excluding weekends.
- All employees on a 4/10 schedule are required to take a lunch break of at least 30 minutes each workday.
