5 CFR §550.1004
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- (a)An employee is required to provide his or her supervisor with a request for religious compensatory time off in advance of the religious observance by following the agency's procedures established in accordance with §§ 550.1005 and 550.1006.
- (b)At the time the religious compensatory time off is requested, the employee must provide the agency with the following information:
- (1)The name and/or description of the religious observance that is the basis of the employee's request to be absent from work in order to meet the employee's personal religious requirements;
- (2)The date(s) and time(s) the employee plans to be absent to participate in the religious observances identified in paragraph (b)(1) of this section; and
- (3)The date(s) and time(s) the employee plans to perform overtime work to earn religious compensatory time off to make up for the absence.
- (c)An employee must comply with the agency's procedures for requesting religious compensatory time off, including any time limitations prescribed under § 550.1006.
- (d)In the event that an adjustment to the dates and times of planned overtime work is required due to unforeseen circumstances, the employee must submit for approval a revised schedule to reflect those changes.