compensation for night and holiday work

compensation for night and holiday work Sec. 206. Section 301 of the Federal Employees Pay Act of 1945, as amended, is amended to read as follows: “Sec. 301. (a) Any regularly scheduled work between the hours of six o’clock postmeridian and six o’clock antemeridian (including periods of absence with pay during such hours due to holidays, and any such hours within periods of leave with pay if such periods total less than eight hours during any pay period) shall be considered night-work, except as provided in subsection (b), and any officer or employee performing such work to whom this title applies shall be compensated for such work at his rate of basic compensation plus premium compensation amounting to 10 per centum of such rate, unless otherwise provided in title IV of this Act. This section shall not operate to modify the provisions of the Act of July 1, 1944 (Public Law Numbered 394, Seventy-eighth Congress), or any other law authorizing additional compensation for nightwork. “(b) The head of any department, independent establishment, or agency, including Government-owned or controlled corporations, may designate any time after six o’clock postmeridian and any time before six o’clock antemeridian as the beginning and end, respectively, of nightwork for the purpose of subsection (a) at any post outside the several States and the District of Columbia where customary hours of business extend into the hours of nightwork provided by such subsection.”