AUO hours count against the weekly overtime standard but not the daily overtime standard. Administrative Workweek - absent designation of another period, it is a period of seven consecutive calendar days beginning with Sunday that is designated in advance by the head of an operating unit head or a designee. When it is impractical to prescribe a regular schedule of definite hours of duty for each workday of a regularly scheduled administrative workweek, management may establish the first 40-hours of duty performed within a period of not more than 6 days of the administrative workweek as the basic workweek. Call-back overtime is deemed at least two hours for purposes of paying premium pay each time the employee is called back, regardless of whether any work is performed. Compensatory time - time off in lieu of pay for equal amounts of irregular or occasional overtime work.
Compensatory time is earned and used in quarter hour increments.
Credit hours are not compensable by overtime, compensatory time off, holiday pay, or Sunday differential and may not be used to establish a premium pay entitlement. Credit hours are liquidated at the employee's basic rate of pay when an employee moves to an organization not covered by the same flexible work schedule. Duty Overtime - an informal term used by foreign service personnel to describe the requirement to perform compensable overtime duty outside the normal workweek periodically as the officer of the day, e.g., on one Saturday a month. See Section 6 for specific overtime standards. FS, FE, FO, FP, and FC Pay Plans - FS designates the Foreign Service pay schedule whose statutory authority is 22 U.S.C. 3963.