Common use of ALTERNATIVE WORK SCHEDULES (AWS Clause in Contracts

ALTERNATIVE WORK SCHEDULES (AWS. SECTION 1. AWS encompasses any schedule other than the traditional (eight hours per day, five days per week) work schedule. When used, alternative work schedules (AWS) must be in accordance with the 5 CFR Part 610, Subpart D. Authority to establish AWS or decline to participate is delegated to the Commander. AWS options are limited to those outlined below. SECTION 2. Supervisors remain responsible for ensuring that organizations are staffed adequately to support and meet customer needs. Core hours are those time during the workday which all employee must be present for work or on approved absence. The core hours for the options outlined below are 0900 – 1500 hours unless otherwise specified for mission reasons. Employees may request a start time between 0630 and 0900 hours. Employees’ scheduled daily tours of duty will end no earlier than 1500 and no later than 1800 hours. (Outside of Exercises/Events) SECTION 3. All employees will have a lunch period of at least 30 minutes. Normally lunch will be scheduled between 1100 and 1300 hours. Lunch periods are intended as breaks during the day and will not be added to the end or the beginning of the workday. In other words, employees can’t “work through” lunch to modify their work requirement. SECTION 4. Participation in AWS is open to all full-time civilian employees at the discretion of the activity head and is strictly voluntary. If employees do not wish to participate, they must work the standard two 40-hour workweeks per pay period. SECTION 5. Management may identify employees as ineligible to participate in AWS due to the nature of their positions or due to employee violations of the AWS policy. The reason(s) for the exclusion should be communicated to the employee. SECTION 6. An employee’s bi-weekly AWS request shall be submitted to the supervisor for his/her approval/disapproval via the request form. The proposed schedule must be approved by the supervisor prior to employee participation. Once approved, changes will normally become effective at the beginning of the pay period following the date of approval by the supervisor and shall remain in effect until a new work schedule is implemented, the employee voluntarily discontinues AWS participation, or the employee’s AWS participation is terminated. There are two categories of AWS: Compressed Work Schedule (CWS) and Flexible Work Schedule (FWS). a. FWS for a full time employee is an 80-hour bi-weekly work requirement which allows an employee to determine his or her own schedule within the limits set by this policy and approved by the immediate supervisor. The FWS for a part-time employee is a bi-weekly basic work requirement of less than 80 hours, which allows an employee to determine his or her own schedule within the limits set by this policy and approved by the immediate supervisor. The two FWS options available for use in HQ TRADOC and ARCIC are Flexitour and Gliding.

ALTERNATIVE WORK SCHEDULES (AWS. SECTION 1. AWS encompasses any schedule other than the traditional (eight hours per day, five days per week) work schedule. When used, Section 1.‌ The Parties agree that alternative work schedules (AWS) must be contribute to a positive work relationship, improved employee morale, and good labor-management relations. However, each employee's work schedule shall ensure that the duties and requirements of the employee's position are fulfilled and the Employer is able to perform its functions efficiently, productively, and economically. The Employer’s operational needs are paramount. Section 2.‌ The Employer will administer any AWS program in accordance with applicable laws, rules, and regulations, and this Agreement. Section 3.‌ The Employer’s work week shall consist of five workdays of eight hours each (plus the 5 CFR Part 610lunch period), Subpart D. Authority Monday through Friday. (a) Available starting hours shall be set at fifteen-minute intervals beginning at 6:00 am. (b) Available finishing hours shall end at 8:00 p.m. (c) Designated management officials may limit the starting hour to establish AWS or decline no earlier than 7:30 a.m. and the leaving hour to participate is delegated no later than 5:30 p.m., based on operational needs. Prior to imposing such a limitation, the Union must be notified, in writing, of that reason. (d) If an employee can demonstrate to the Commander. AWS options are limited satisfaction of his or her designated management official that the range of permissible working hours should be expanded to those outlined belowalleviate a hardship (for example, child care needs, medical needs, an absence of transportation), the designated management official may agree to modify the flexible bands provided that this would not adversely affect operational needs. SECTION 2(e) The lunch period will normally begin at the midpoint of an employee’s daily tour of duty. Supervisors remain responsible for ensuring Designated management officials may, however, approve other lunch starting and ending times that organizations are staffed adequately to support and meet customer do not conflict with operational needs. Core hours are those With a designated management official’s approval, employees on a flexible schedule may extend their lunch period beyond the mid-point by up to one hour if the time is made up during the workday which all employee must be present for work or on approved absencesame day. The core lunch period is in addition to the required work hours and should not be moved to either end of the day or be “worked through,” so as to shorten the workday. However, a designated management official may allow an employee, on a non-recurring basis, to take his or her lunch period at either end of the day when that would assist an employee with special circumstances. Section 4.‌ Subject to the operational needs of the Employer, an employee may elect one of the work schedules described and may change that schedule with the designated management official’s approval. Employees on a maxi-flex or compressed work schedule may vary their starting and leaving times with his/her designated management official’s prior approval. The following work schedules are available under the conditions specified in this Article: (a) Maxi-Flex Work Schedule. A flexible work schedule that may contain fewer than ten (10) workdays in the biweekly pay period and in which a full-time employee has a basic work requirement of 80 hours for the options outlined below are 0900 – 1500 biweekly pay period, but in which an employee may vary the number of hours unless otherwise specified for mission reasons. Employees may request worked on a start time between 0630 and 0900 hours. Employees’ scheduled daily tours of duty will end no earlier than 1500 and no later than 1800 hours. (Outside of Exercises/Events) SECTION 3. All employees will have a lunch period of at least 30 minutes. Normally lunch will be scheduled between 1100 and 1300 hours. Lunch periods are intended as breaks during the day and will not be added to the end given workday or the beginning number of hours each week within the workday. In other words, employees can’t “work through” lunch to modify their work requirementlimits established by the designated management official. SECTION 4. Participation in AWS is open to all full-time civilian employees at the discretion of the activity head and is strictly voluntary. If employees do not wish to participate, they must work the standard two 40-hour workweeks per pay period. SECTION 5. Management may identify employees as ineligible to participate in AWS due to the nature of their positions or due to employee violations of the AWS policy. The reason(s(b) for the exclusion should be communicated to the employee. SECTION 6. An employee’s bi-weekly AWS request shall be submitted to the supervisor for his/her approval/disapproval via the request form. The proposed schedule must be approved by the supervisor prior to employee participation. Once approved, changes will normally become effective at the beginning of the pay period following the date of approval by the supervisor and shall remain in effect until a new work schedule is implemented, the employee voluntarily discontinues AWS participation, or the employee’s AWS participation is terminated. There are two categories of AWS: Compressed Work Schedule (CWS) or Five-four-nine (5- 4-9). Under the 5-4-9 schedule, an employee works an established schedule of eight 9-hour days, one 8-hour day, and Flexible Work Schedule (FWS)has a scheduled day off during the pay period. The day off and short day should not be scheduled in the same week. a. FWS Section 5.‌ Because compressed work schedules are fixed schedules: (a) Employees may not substitute their short day for a full time employee is an 80-hour bi-weekly missed day of work requirement which allows an employee in order to determine his or her own schedule within lessen the limits set by this policy and approved by the immediate supervisorhours of leave used. The FWS off-day may be occasionally changed with a designated management official’s prior approval. However, these officials are prevented by regulation from moving off-days or short days to other pay periods, formally or informally. (b) Employees on a CWS who arrive late or leave early must request and use leave for a part-the appropriate time employee is a bi-weekly basic missed; they are not authorized to make up missed hours by working late or coming in early on subsequent days, except as under the leave provisions of this Agreement. A designated management official may require employees who are working compressed work requirement of less than 80 hours, which allows an employee schedules to determine his or her own schedule within the limits set by this policy and approved by the immediate supervisor. The two FWS options available for use in HQ TRADOC and ARCIC are Flexitour and Glidingchange their days off to meet operational needs.