This initiative provides individual counseling services for employees as well as seminars on a variety of issues. Supervisors may authorize administrative leave for an employee to meet with an EAP counselor during official time. Part-time work initiatives take advantage of current personnel regulations allowing positions to be filled with employees who work less than 40 hours a week. The job sharing initiative combines the duties of two part-time employees to create a single position. Such a requests would need to be submitted by the employee to their supervisor in writing.
Employees can then use their credit hours in place of leave.
Employees do not receive overtime pay for credit hours. To earn or use credit hour, employees need to submit a Form 3-261, Documentation of Unusual Tour of Duty, through their supervisor to Personnel so the employees payroll records in FPPS can be adjusted to acknowledge the earning and use of credit hours. The flexiplace initiative, or telecommuting, allows employees to work at a site outside their office. This site may either be their home, a telecommuting site, or an alternate Service facility. Current Service policy allows employees and supervisors to enter into an agreement determining which days an employee will work outside the office.