Background of the Issue. Most police departments have traditionally placed their patrol officers on a 40-hour workweek in which personnel work five consecutive 8-hour shifts, followed by two days off. In recent years, however, an increasing number of law enforcement agencies have moved to some variant of a compressed workweek. Some officers work four 10-hour shifts weekly or three 12-hour shifts (plus a time adjustment to make up the remaining 4 hours of the standard 40-hour workweek).
https://www.nij.gov/topics/law-enforcement/officer-safety/stress-fatigue/pages/shift-work.aspx
A flexible work schedule is an alternative to the traditional 9 to 5, 40-hour work week. It allows employees to vary their arrival and/or departure times. The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) does not address flexible work schedules.
http://www.dol.gov/general/topic/workhours/flexibleschedules
We develop and maintain Governmentwide regulations and policies on the administration of work schedules, including the basic 40-hour workweek, holidays, and flexible and compressed work schedules. However, each Federal agency is responsible for administering work scheduling policies and programs for its own employees.
http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/work-schedules/
AB 357, as amended, Chiu. Employment: work hours: Fair Scheduling Act of 2015. Existing law, with certain exceptions, establishes 8 hours as a day’s work and a 40-hour workweek, and requires payment of prescribed overtime compensation for additional hours worked.
http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB357
Massachusetts Laws. MGL c.136, s.5 Conducting business on Sunday. MGL c.136, s.6 Limitations to rules on conducting business on Sunday. MGL c.136, s.16 Retail opening on Sundays and Holidays. MGL c.149, s.51A , Exemptions to Sunday and Day of Rest Requirements. MGL c.149, s. 45 Work on Holidays. MGL c.149, s. 48 Day of Rest.
http://www.mass.gov/courts/case-legal-res/law-lib/laws-by-subj/about/hours.html
The title 5 statutes regarding the establishment of work schedules, including alternate work schedules, can be found in 5 U.S.C chapter 61, Hours of Work. OPM's regulations on the establishment of work schedules can be found in 5 CFR part 610, Hours of Duty. Adjustment of Work Schedules for Religious Observances.
http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/work-schedules/
A flexible work schedule is an alternative to the traditional 9 to 5, 40-hour work week. It allows employees to vary their arrival and/or departure times. Under some policies, employees must work a prescribed number of hours a pay period and be present during a daily core time.. The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) does not address flexible work schedules.
http://www.dol.gov/general/topic/workhours/flexibleschedules
Janet I. Tu. The Seattle City Council unanimously passed a “secure scheduling” law on Monday, making Seattle the second major U.S. city to regulate how large retailers and food-service employers schedule their workers.
http://www.seattletimes.com/business/retail/seattle-council-approves-worker-scheduling-law/
Seattle City Council approves worker-scheduling law. Originally published September 19, 2016 at 3:45 pm Updated September 20, 2016 at 10:29 am. Seattle becomes the second major U.S. city to regulate how large retailers and food-service employers schedule their workers.
http://www.seattletimes.com/business/retail/seattle-council-approves-worker-scheduling-law/
Work Schedules. 1  Work schedules are up to an employer to set and enforce, i.e., scheduling of employees is entirely within the employer's control, and it is up to the employees to comply with the schedule that is given to them.
http://www.twc.state.tx.us/news/efte/work_schedules.html
work hour schedule laws
Work hour schedule means 8 hours as a day’s work and a 40-hour workweek, and requires payment of prescribed overtime compensation for additional hours worked. According to work hour schedule law, one can work 8 hours a day and 40 hours a week.