The statements contained within the .5 section of this ADS chapter are the official Agency policies and corresponding essential procedures. Full-time employees must work 80 hours during a biweekly pay period. Full-time employees have a daily work requirement of eight hours. Part-time employees must work between 32 and 64 hours during a biweekly pay period. For overseas employees, the lunch break is established in coordination with officials at post.
Lunch breaks are unpaid time.
There are no other official break periods. A lunch break is not required for part-time employees with an official work schedule of less than eight hours per day. Employee abuse of time and attendance is not an acceptable justification for exclusion. However, the supervisor must take into account the need for monitoring and supervision in establishing work hours for the employee under a Flexitime work schedule. It is the supervisor's responsibility to prohibit abuses and to take corrective actions, if abuses occur.