Flexible and Compressed Work Schedules for Federal Employees

This document discusses potential legislation authorizing Federal agencies to experiment with flexible and compressed work schedules for employees. GAO recognized that certain employees and labor organizations would be concerned that some potential would exist for management to use new work schedules to avoid payment of overtime. GAO was of the opinion that the draft bill contained sufficient safeguards to preclude such abuses by requiring that overtime officially ordered in advance will be compensable. GAO determined the draft legislation appeared to provide the requisite authority and flexibility to permit agencies to test and experiment with various work schedules.