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COMPRESSED WORK WEEK POLICY Compressed Workweek benefits employees, management, and customers. Alternative work schedules, including the compressed workweek, are consistent with {employer's} efforts toward Total Quality Management. It gives employees more control over their work schedules and, by so doing, improves their morale and motivates them to improve the performance of their work units. Managers and supervisors are encouraged to approve employees' requests for compressed work week whenever it is possible to do so without compromising the organization's goals. Compressed work week schedules must meet the following requirements: All full time employees must work a 40-hour week (or 80-hours each pay period); Operational requirements must be met; Service to the customer must be maintained or improved; Costs to {the employer} will not be increased; Each office or operation must be covered during normal {or core} business hours; Compressed work week schedules will not diminish the ability of {the employer} to assign responsibility and accountability to individual employees for the provision of services and performance of their duties; In positions where a compressed work week schedule is permitted, requests from employees for any type of change in work schedule or work hours will be considered on the basis of the above standards and the workload of {the employer}; Compressed work week schedules must be set (not varying from pay period to pay period), but may be any of the following {for a two week pay period}:oNine nine-hour days, one eight hour day, and one day off every pay period; oFour ten hour days each week, and a day off each week; oFour nine-hour days and one four hour day each week (one afternoon or morning off each week); oFour seven-hour days and one twelve-hour day each week (works well for businesses that are open in the evening as well as during the day);When a paid holiday falls on an employee's regularly scheduled day off, the employee will be given another day off during that pay period; Employees must request a compressed work week schedule in writing. The decision of the {manager or supervisor} is final.