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5 U.S. Code § 5543 - Compensatory time off | U.S. Code | US Law | LII / Legal Information Institute
Subchapter V. PREMIUM PAY
Section 5543. Compensatory time off
5 U.S. Code § 5543. Compensatory time off
on request of an employee, grant the employee compensatory time off from his scheduled tour of duty instead of payment under section 5542 or section 7 of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 for an equal amount of time spent in irregular or occasional overtime work; and
The head of an agency may, on request of an employee, grant the employee compensatory time off from the employee’s scheduled tour of duty instead of payment under section 5544 or section 7 of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 for an equal amount of time spent in irregular or occasional overtime work. An agency head may not require an employee to be compensated for overtime work with an equivalent amount of compensatory time-off from the employee’s tour of duty.
The appropriate Secretary may, on request of an employee of a nonappropriated fund instrumentality of the Department of Defense or the Coast Guard described in section 2105(c), grant such employee compensatory time off from duty instead of overtime pay for overtime work.
(2) For purposes of this subsection, the term “appropriate Secretary” means—
(Pub. L. 89–554, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 486; Pub. L. 90–83, § 1(25), Sept. 11, 1967, 81 Stat. 200; Pub. L. 101–509, title V, § 529 [title I, § 101(b)(3)(E), title II, § 210(2)], Nov. 5, 1990, 104 Stat. 1427, 1439, 1460; Pub. L. 104–201, div. A, title XVI, § 1610(a), Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2738; Pub. L. 109–163, div. A, title VI, § 674, Jan. 6, 2006, 119 Stat. 3319.)
5 U.S.C. 912.
June 30, 1945, ch. 212, § 202, 59 Stat. 297.
May 24, 1946, ch. 270, § 9, 60 Stat. 218.
Sept. 1, 1954, ch. 1208, § 204, 68 Stat. 1109.
In subsection (b), the words “in his discretion” are omitted as unnecessary in view of the permissive nature of the authority. The words “overtime work” are substituted for “any work in excess of forty hours in any regularly scheduled administrative workweek” because of the definition of “overtime work” in section 5542(a).
5543(a)(2)
5 App.: 912.
July 18, 1966, Pub. L. 89–504, § 404(b), 80 Stat. 297.
1990—Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 101–509, § 529 [title II, § 210(2)], inserted “under section 5542 or section 7 of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938” after “payment”.
Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 101–509, § 529 [title I, § 101(b)(3)(E)], inserted “(including any applicable locality-based comparability payment under section 5304 or similar provision of law and any applicable special rate of pay under section 5305 or similar provision of law)” after “GS–10”.