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2016 CBA Tentati ve Agreement Page 65 of 217 additional hours or days for credit hours. Any solicitation to earn credit hours shall be on an equitable basis. Section 9. Employees may request to work credit hours in order to provide coverage for another employee who requests leave. An employee approved to work credit hours in order to provide coverage for another employee shall work the cr edit hours unless the employee has been relieved of the assignment. In accordance with Article 24 of this Agreement, leave requests shall be approved in the order that they were requested. Section 10. Credit hours must be earned prior to their use. Proced ures for approving the use of credit hours shall be the same as those approving leave requests under Article 24 of this Agreement. If requested in advance, employees may substitute credit hours for approved annual leave other than annual leave accrued duri ng the current leave year that was selected within designated pre - approved opportunities in accordance with Article 24 of this Agreement. Section 11. For a full - time employee, only twenty - four (24) credit hours may be carried over to the next pay period. For a part - time employee, not more than one - fourth (1/4) of the hours in the employee's biweekly basic work requirement may be carried over to the next pay period. Full - time employees with credit hour balances in excess of twenty - four (24) hours as of the effective date of this Agreement will carryover that balance but will not be eligible to earn additional credit hours until their balance is reduced to less than twenty - four (24) hours. Part - time employees with credit hour balances in excess of one - fou rth (1/4) of the hours in the their biweekly basic work requirement as of the effective date of this Agreement will carryover that balance but will not be eligible to earn additional credit hours until their balance is reduced to less than one - fourth (1/4) of their biweekly basic work requirement. Section 12 . A full - time employee shall be paid at the employee's current rate of base pay for a maximum of twenty - four (24) unused credit hours when Federal employment ends, the employee transfers to another agen cy as defined in 5 U.S.C. 6121(1), or the employee otherwise is no longer participating in a flexible work schedule. A part - time employee shall be paid at the employee's current rate of base pay for those unused credit hours not in excess of one - fourth (1 /4) of the employee's biweekly basic work requirement when Federal employment ends, the employee transfers to another agency as defined in 5 U.S.C. 6121(1), or the employee otherwise is no longer participating in a flexible work schedule . Section 13. All employees who volunteer and subsequently participate in an AWS will be expected to participate for the duration of the annual schedule. An employee may be relieved from an AWS for hardship reasons. The reasons shall be set forth in writing to the Agency a nd the Union at the local level. Removals from AWS for hardship reasons shall be based on the merits of each case, and if found acceptable by the Agency, after direct discussion with the Union, employees shall be accommodated as soon as staffing, workload and scheduling requirements permit. Section 14 . Developmentals may participate in an AWS unless the Agency determines that it will negatively impact their training. Section 15. If at any time, the Agency determines that any schedule established under the provisions of this Article has had or would have an adverse Agency impact as defined in this Article, it will follow the provisions of Article 7 of this Agreement to seek termination of the

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