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The Standard (STND) Work Schedule is the period an employee is regularly scheduled to work within an administrative work week.
For a full-time employee, it consists of the 40-hour basic work week (only 8 hours/day) plus any periods of regularly scheduled overtime (separate and different from irregularly scheduled overtime).
The Compressed Work Schedule (CWS) is a “fixed” work schedule, but it enables full-time employees to complete the basic 80-hour biweekly work requirement in less than 10 workdays. These are fixed schedules, starting and stopping at prescribed times with fixed/set day(s) off.
Some common examples of an employee compressed schedule are commonly referred to as “5/4/9” (8 days at 9 hour days, 1 day for 8 hours and the 10th working day is off) and “4/10” (working 4 days a week at 10 hours a day with a day off each work week).
On holidays, an employee is normally excused from work and entitled to basic pay for the number of hours of his or her CWS on that day. In the event the President issues an Executive Order granting a “half-day” holiday, full-time CWS employees are normally excused from work during the last half of their “basic work requirement” (i.e., non-overtime hours) on that day.
The MaxiFlex (MAXIF) Work Schedule is classified by OPM as a Flexitour schedule. A Flexitour schedule is a fixed schedule that differs from a regular schedule only in that it involves a range of arrival times.
A Flexitour schedule requires you to work 8 hours each day for 10 workdays. Just as with regular schedules, you are considered late if you arrive after the agreed upon fixed/permanent arrival time. Flexible schedules must have established flexible hours, time when you may have an option to work, and “core” hours, time when you must be at work. Just as with compressed schedules, flexible schedules have an 80-hour per pay period work requirement.
However, a Maxiflex schedule is a more flexible schedule arrangement. Whereas a Flexitime schedule allows a variance of arrival and departure, with the same 8 hours worked each day, a Maxiflex schedule also allows employees to vary the number of hours worked in a day and the number of days in a week. The only requirement is that the number of hours worked or on approved leave or credit hours must equal 80. The Maxiflex schedules may vary widely between employees and work weeks.
As with all flexible schedules, all core and flexible hours for each of the 10 days in a pay period must be established in advance.
The Variable Day (VARD) Work Schedule is a type of flexible work schedule that has core hours on each workday in the week.
The full-time employee has a basic work requirement of 40 hours in each week of the biweekly pay period, but the employee may vary the number of hours worked on a given workday within the week within the limits established for the organization. For GSA, this is 12 hours per day.
The Variable Week (VARWK) Work Schedule is a type of flexible work schedule containing core hours on each workday in the biweekly pay period.
The full-time employee has a basic work requirement of 80 hours for the biweekly pay period, but the employee may vary the number of hours worked on a given workday or the number of hours each week within the limits established for the organization. For GSA, this is 12 hours per day.
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Rates for Alaska, Hawaii, and U.S. territories and possessions are set by the Department of Defense.
Rates for foreign countries are set by the Department of State.
Rates are available between 10/1/2023 and 09/30/2026.
The End Date of your trip can not occur before the Start Date.
Traveler reimbursement is based on the location of the work activities and not the accommodations, unless lodging is not available at the work activity, then the agency may authorize the rate where lodging is obtained.
Unless otherwise specified, the per diem locality is defined as "all locations within, or entirely surrounded by, the corporate limits of the key city, including independent entities located within those boundaries."
Per diem localities with county definitions shall include"all locations within, or entirely surrounded by, the corporate limits of the key city as well as the boundaries of the listed counties, including independent entities located within the boundaries of the key city and the listed counties (unless otherwise listed separately)."
When a military installation or Government - related facility(whether or not specifically named) is located partially within more than one city or county boundary, the applicable per diem rate for the entire installation or facility is the higher of the rates which apply to the cities and / or counties, even though part(s) of such activities may be located outside the defined per diem locality.
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