Part-timers eligible for Sunday premium pay

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Part-timers eligible for Sunday premium pay

Part-time federal employees are now eligible for an additional 25 percent above their basic pay rate for work done on Sundays, according to an OPM final rule pu...

Federal News Network Staff

August 23, 2011 2:04 pm

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By Jolie Lee
Federal News Radio

Part-time federal employees are now eligible for an additional 25 percent above their basic pay rate for work done on Sundays, according to a final rule published today.

According to the OPM website, “An employee is entitled to 25 percent of his or her rate of basic pay for work performed during a regularly scheduled basic 8-hour tour of duty that begins or ends on a Sunday.”

The new rule rose from a 2009 U.S. Court of Appeals decision that found part-time federal employees were entitled to the same right to Sunday premium pay as full-time employees were. Fathauer v. U.S. involved five part-time meteorologists who sued the government for denying them premium pay for work on Sundays.

The Sunday premium pay policy applies to General Schedule employees and “certain other white-collar civilian federal employees,” according to OPM.

The final rule is effective Sept. 22.