72-hour Work Schedule & Your Benefits

The Los Angeles Administrative Code Section 4.117* permits the continuation of full-time benefits to employees who voluntarily reduce their number of hours worked (and paid) from 80 to not less than 72.

If you, as an Active Member, elect the 72-hour reduced work schedule:

• You will have the same retirement benefits as though you worked 80 hours.
• The calculation of your retirement benefits will be the same as if you worked 80 hours because your retirement deduction from your biweekly salary is based on an 80-hour workweek.
• The calculation of your average monthly compensation would also be based on an 80-hour workweek if you were working a 72-hour schedule prior to retirement.

*Note: Please refer to the Administrative Code Sec. 4.117 entitled Reduced Work Schedule.