§ 532.501 Definitions

5 CFR 532.501In this subpart:

5 CFR 532.501 (definition of "Administrative workweek")Administrative workweek means a period of seven consecutive calendar days.

5 CFR 532.501 (definition of "Basic workweek")Basic workweek for full time employees means the days and hours within an administrative workweek which make up the employee's regularly scheduled 40-hour workweek.

5 CFR 532.501 (definition of "Environmental differential")Environmental differential means a differential paid for a duty involving unusually severe hazards or working conditions.

5 CFR 532.501 (definition of "Irregular or occasional overtime work")Irregular or occasional overtime work means overtime work which is not part of the regularly scheduled administrative workweek.

5 CFR 532.501 (definition of "Night shift differential")Night shift differential means the differential paid the employee when the majority of regularly scheduled nonovertime hours worked fall between 3 p.m. and 8 a.m.

5 CFR 532.501 (definition of "Overtime work")Overtime work means authorized and approved hours of work performed by an employee in excess of eight hours in a day or in excess of 40 hours in an administrative workweek, and includes irregular or occasional overtime work and regular overtime work.

5 CFR 532.501 (definition of "Premium pay")Premium pay means additional compensation for overtime, or Sunday work, and standby duty.

5 CFR 532.501 (definition of "Sunday work")Sunday work means work performed during a regularly scheduled tour of duty within a basic workweek when any part of that work which is not overtime work is performed on Sunday.

5 CFR 532.501 (definition of "Regular overtime work")Regular overtime work means overtime work which is a part of the regularly scheduled administrative workweek.

5 CFR 532.501 (definition of "Regularly scheduled administrative workweek")Regularly scheduled administrative workweek means:

5 CFR 532.501 (definition of "Regularly scheduled administrative workweek", paragraph (1))(1) For full-time employees, the period within an administrative workweek within which employees are scheduled to be on duty regularly.

5 CFR 532.501 (definition of "Regularly scheduled administrative workweek", paragraph (2))(2) For part-time employees, it means the days and hours within an administrative workweek during which these employees are scheduled to be on duty regularly.

5 CFR 532.501 (definition of "Tour of duty")Tour of duty means the hours of a day, i.e., a daily tour of duty, and the days of an administrative workweek, i.e., a weekly tour of duty, that are scheduled in advance and during which an employee is required to perform on a regularly recurring basis.