Overtime pay provided under title 5, United States Code, is pay for hours of work officially ordered or approved in excess of 8 hours in a day or 40 hours in an administrative workweek. FLSA exempt employees, as defined in 5 U.S.C. 5541 (2), who work full-time, part-time, or intermittent tours of duty are eligible for title 5 overtime pay.

Employees in an agency, (as defined in 5 U.S.C. 5541 (1)), are covered by the title 5 premium pay provisions unless they are excepted from coverage under 5 U.S.C. 5541 (2) or other applicable statutory authority.

“That the laws relating to the organization of the Government of the United States and to its civilian officers and employees, generally, are revised, codified, and enacted as title 5 of the United States Code, entitled ‘Government Organization and Employees’, and may be cited as ‘ 5 U.S.C., §    ’.”