Alternate Work Week

Forms

GS 64 - Alternate Work Week Schedule Request and Agreement - not for DPA employees

DPA 183 - DPA Alternate Work Week Agreement - for DPA employees only

The alternate work week schedule (AWWS) allows employees and supervisors to mutually agree upon a varied distribution of their normal work hours. It does not change the number of hours worked, but simply allows each individual the flexibility to rearrange their work schedule to better meet their personal needs while considering the needs of the office.

The major benefits of the AWWS are:

1. Improved employee morale and job satisfaction;

2. Extended hours of service to the public and other State agencies;

3. Decreased short-term absenteeism for medical and miscellaneous personal appointments; and

4. Increased employee usage of carpools and public transportation.

Alternate Work Week Schedules

Definition

Regular Work Week: Employees working a standard 5 day, 40 hour week schedule have their work begin on Sunday at 12:01 a.m. and end at 12:00 midnight the following Saturday.

Alternate Work Week Schedule: An "alternative" to the normal 5-day, 40-hour work week. Examples of alternate work schedules utilized at DPA are:

4/10/40

An employee works the required 40-hour minimum work week in four 10-hour days between Monday and Friday.

9/8/80

An employee works eight 9-hour days and one 8-hour day in a two-week period with one day off every other week that corresponds with the 8-hour day.

Employees who are approved for a 9/8/80 work week will be required to adjust their work week to ensure that they do not work over 40 hours in any consecutive seven day period. In this instance their work weeks would be adjusted to start four hours into their work shifts on their 8 hour days (this puts 4 hours into each work week).

Example: An employee on a 9/8/80 schedule working from 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday with a 1 hour lunch, and from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. with a 1 hour lunch on their 8 hour Friday with every other Friday as their regular scheduled day off (RDO). The work week would start mid-day on Friday and end at mid-day on the following Friday.

3 Week Period

Hours worked each day:

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Week 1	9	9	9	9	4/4*
Week 2	9*	9*	9*	9*	RDO*/RDO
Week 3	9	9	9	9	4/4*

* These hours together form one work week. The hours not marked with an asterisk form another work week.

In the above example, the work week, which under the FLSA is defined as a fixed and regularly recurring period (7 consecutive 24-hour periods) begins mid-day on Friday (of Week 1) and extends to mid-day the following Friday (Week 2). This work week remains constant as reflected above.

Updated February 26, 2010 at 1:56 PM.