The standard workweek

The standard workweek is a fixed and regularly recurring period of seven consecutive twenty-four-hour periods. A workweek may begin on any day of the week and at any hour and minute of the day. Due to the nature of the work, an agency may assign employees to work different workweeks or different workdays to carry out the mission of the agency. Employees must be made aware of their assigned workweek. An agency may establish different workweeks in accordance with requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 [Pub. L. 75-718; 52 Stat. 1060; 29 U.S.C. 201 et seq.]. In the absence of an established standard workweek, the period of 12:00 a.m. Sunday through 11:59 p.m. the following Saturday must be utilized.