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2016 CBA Tentati ve Agreement Page 64 of 217 (3) an increase in the cost of Agency operations (other than a reasonable administrative cost relating to the process of establishing a compressed schedule). If the Parties at the lo cal level reach impasse regarding the determination to establish an AWS, the impasse shall be resolved utilizing the provisions of Article 7 of this Agreement. b. For the purpose of this Agreement, Flexible Work Schedules is defined as: (1) Maxiflex - 40 is a typ e of flexible work schedule, negotiated in accordance with Article 32 of this Agreement, that contains core hours on up to five (5) workdays in the workweek and in which a full - time employee has a basic work requirement of forty (40) hours for the workweek , but in which an employee's schedule may vary the number of hours worked on a given workday. a. A minimum of seven (7) hours core time each workday. "Core time" means those designated hours and days during the biweekly pay period established by the Agency w hen an employee on certain flexible schedules must be present for work. b. A maximum of one (1) flexible hour, to be negotiated locally, which must be worked each workday. c. Employees may vary start times on a daily basis only during the established flexible times. c. For the purpose of this Agreement, Compressed Work Schedules is defined as: 1. A fixed schedule where an employee works four 10 - hour days per workweek (i.e. 4 - 10 schedule). 2. A fixed schedule where an employee works eight 9 - hour days and one 8 - hour da y for a total of eighty (80) hours in a biweekly pay period (i.e. 5 - 4 - 9 schedule). 3. For FSS only, an eighty (80) hour bi - weekly work requirement, which is scheduled for less than ten (10) work days. Section 6. "Credit hours" are non - overtime hours worked p ursuant to a flexible schedule established under this Article which are in excess of an employee's basic work requirement and which the employee elects to work, after approval by the Agency, so as to vary the length of a workweek or a workday. Employees a re not paid base pay or overtime pay for credit hours when they earn them. Employees earning credit hours are not entitled to night differential, Sunday premium pay, or Holiday premium pay. An employee may use credit hours during a subsequent day, week, or pay period to allow the employee to be absent from an equal number of hours of the employee's basic work requirement with no loss of base pay. Section 7. At the request of an employee and with approval by the Agency, the employee may earn credit hours on an employee's regular day off or in conjunction with a particular shift. Section 8. The Agency shall not coerce, assign, or otherwise require employees to work

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