5 CFR 532.

503 - Overtime pay

(c) Callback overtime work. Irregular or
occasional overtime work performed by an
employee on a day when work was not regularly
scheduled for the employee or for which the
employee has been required to return to the place
of employment shall be considered to be at least
two hours in duration for the purpose of overtime
pay, regardless of whether the employee performs
work for two hours.
5 CFR 550.103 - Definitions
Irregular or occasional overtime work
means overtime work that is not part of
an employee's regularly scheduled
administrative workweek.
5 CFR 550.103 - Definitions
Regular overtime work means overtime
work that is part of an employee's
regularly scheduled administrative
workweek.
5 CFR 550.103 - Definitions
Regularly scheduled work means work
that is scheduled in advance of an
administrative workweek under an
agency's procedures for establishing
workweeks in accordance with 610.111
, excluding any such work to which
availability pay under 550.181 applies.
550.181 Not applicable
Law Enforcement provision

5 CFR 610.121 Establishment of work

schedules. 610.121 Establishment of
work schedules. (a) Except when the head
of an agency determines that the agency
would be seriously handicapped in
carrying out its functions or that costs
would be substantially increased, he or
she shall provide that
(1) Assignments to tours of duty are
scheduled in advance of the
administrative workweek over periods of
not less than 1 week;
(2) The basic 40-hour workweek is
scheduled on 5 days, Monday through
Friday when possible, and the 2 days
outside the basic workweek are
consecutive;

5 CFR 550.103 Definitions

Regularly scheduled administrative workweek, for a full-time
employee, means the period within an administrative
workweek, established in accordance with 610.111 of this
chapter, within which the employee is regularly scheduled to
work. For a part-time employee, it means the officially
prescribed days and hours within an administrative workweek
during which the employee is regularly scheduled to work

5 CFR 610.111 - Establishment of workweeks

(a) The head of each agency, with respect to each full-time

employee to whom this subpart applies, shall establish by a
written agency policy statement:
The established
(1) A basic workweek of 40 hours which does not extend over
work week speaks of
more than 6 of any 7 consecutive days. Except as provided in
40 hours, there is
paragraphs (b), (c), and (d) of this section, the written agency
nothing to speak of
policy statement shall specify the days and hours within the
overtime.
administrative workweek that constitute the basic workweek.
When can Sunday be regularly scheduled?
Ans. When it becomes part of the regularly scheduled administrative
workweek.
Note: I do not see (B), (C) or (D) as impactful for my
What does it take to do that?
purpose.
Ans. 5 CFR 610.111 and 5 CFR 610.121 eg only when it is part of your
B- first 40 hour rule
regular 40 hours. (And then is due Sunday premium pay at +25% plus
C- Night / Standby / Irregular once you read it, it does not
differentials 550.122)
apply
5 CFR 610.121 establishes restrictions that SAT-SUN should not be part
D- CWS
of the regular schedule.
[Policy ] I would argue that POLICY is by convention a long
If Sunday was your normal work day you would not get the callback
standing directive (eg CBA) vice the PMA writing up an