Editing Flextime (section)

== United States ==
In [[Florida]], flextime workers, like [[Wages|salaried workers]], are exempted from [[insurance]] regulations, and are given broad leeway in setting their own work schedule. Unlike exempted salaried workers, employers are still required to pay overtime to a flextime worker if they work more than 40 hours per week.

In recent years, the term "flextime" has acquired a more controversial definition when used to describe proposals to overhaul the nation's overtime regulations. Under one such proposal by the [[George W. Bush|Bush administration]] made public on 5 August 2004, employers would not be required to pay non-exempt employees' overtime for working more than 40 hours in a week so long as the employee works no more than 80 hours over a two-week period. For example, a worker could be required to work 70 hours one week and receive no overtime compensation as long as they work 10 hours or less the following week. Such arrangements are opposed by [[trade union]]s such as the [[AFL–CIO]].

In certain industries and disciplines, such as [[information technology]], flextime permits workers to vary their schedule. For example, they may opt to work [[four-day workweek | four 10-hour days per week]], taking Monday or Friday off. Another flextime schedule is to work nine-hour days Monday through Thursday, an eight-hour day on Friday, taking every other Friday off, called the "9/80 work schedule".<ref>
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Some agencies of the United States government allow employees to work such a schedule, and designate it as an alternative work schedule (AWS).<ref>FEDweek, ''The 2014 Federal Employees Handbook'' (2013).</ref> Workers may arrange to coordinate their days off so that their responsibilities are adequately covered.

Other workers may opt simply to come in early, such as 5 or 6{{nbsp}}a.m., and leave in the mid-afternoon, or come in late and therefore leave late. One benefit of such a schedule is that commuting times occur outside of the congested [[rush hour]] traffic within a given geographic region. Flextime arrangements also help parents: one parent works 10{{nbsp}}a.m. – 6{{nbsp}}p.m. and is in charge of the children before school / daycare, while the other parent works 7{{nbsp}}a.m. – 3{{nbsp}}p.m. and is in charge of the children after school / daycare. This allows parents time to commute.<ref>{{cite web|author=Leah |url=http://www.momsrising.org/work |title=O: Open, Flexible Work |publisher=Momsrising |access-date=27 January 2012}}</ref> Flextime is also beneficial to workers pursuing an education.