5 U.S.C. § 6126 — Flexible schedules; credit hours; accumulation and compensation

(a) Subject to any limitation prescribed by the Office of Personnel Management or the agency, a full-time employee on a flexible schedule can accumulate not more than 24 credit hours, and a part-time employee can accumulate not more than one-fourth of the hours in that employee’s biweekly basic work requirement, for carryover from a biweekly pay period to a succeeding biweekly pay period for credit to the basic work requirement for that period. (b) Any employee who is on a flexible schedule program under section 6122 of this title and who is no longer subject to that a program must be paid at that employee’s then current rate of basic pay for— (1) in the case of a full-time employee, not more than 24 credit hours accumulated by that employee, or (2) in the case of a part-time employee, the number of credit hours (not more than one-fourth of the hours in that employee’s biweekly basic work requirement) accumulated by that employee.