A full-time employee must work 80 hours during a biweekly pay period. The two-week period for which an employee is scheduled to perform work. The time periods of the workday during which an employee covered by a flexible work schedule is required by the Agency to be present for work or on approved leave. The lunch break is in addition to the daily work requirement. For overseas missions, the lunch break is established in coordination with officials at post.
Lunch breaks are unpaid time.
For a part-time employee, the officially prescribed days and hours within an administrative workweek during which the employee is regularly scheduled to work. Those hours which comprise in sequence the employee's regularly scheduled tour of duty within any 24-hour period, whether falling entirely within one calendar day or not.