Okla. Stat. tit. 74, § 74-840-2.15

A. The federal Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C., Section

201, et seq., provides for minimum standards for overtime

entitlement, and spells out administrative procedures by which

covered work time must be compensated. This section is not a

comprehensive listing of the provisions of the Fair Labor Standards

Act and regulations promulgated thereunder, and is not intended to

conflict with either the Act or the regulations. No agency, board,

commission, department, institution, bureau, executive officer or

other entity of the executive branch shall exceed the minimum

overtime entitlement provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act and

regulations promulgated thereunder except as herein provided.

B. Nothing in this title or the federal Fair Labor Standards

Act shall be construed to prohibit an employer from paying an

employee who is required to work on a holiday, as defined in Section

82.1 of Title 25 of the Oklahoma Statutes, for such work at a rate

of two times the employee's regular hourly rate, or from

rescheduling the holiday at the discretion of the appointing

authority; provided, however, any state employee who is required to

work on a holiday, as defined in Section 82.1 of Title 25 of the

Oklahoma Statutes, in the performance of fire suppression duties

shall receive holiday pay at a rate of two times the employee's

regular hourly rate.

C. Any employee receiving compensatory time consistent with the

provisions of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act shall exhaust

such compensatory time prior to the taking of annual leave, except

where the employee is subject to losing such annual leave due to the

application of the accumulation limits in Section 840-2.20 of this

title.

D. An employee receiving compensatory time under the provisions

of subsection A of this section shall be permitted to use accrued

compensatory time within one hundred eighty (180) days, except as

provided in subsection E of this section, following the day on which

it was accrued, provided the taking of compensatory time does not

unduly impact agency operations or the health, safety or welfare of

the public, or endanger public property. The balance of any unused

compensatory time received but not taken during this time period, if

payable, shall be paid to the employee at the employee's current

regular hourly rate.

E. Following an emergency declaration as described in Section

683.8 of Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes, the accumulation limits

for compensatory time shall temporarily increase and shall carryover

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to the end of the fiscal year following the year in which the

emergency declaration ended.

All compensatory time that accrued or expired during the period

of the emergency declarations issued by the Governor in 2020 and

2021 in response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) shall carry

over to the end of the fiscal year following the year in which the

emergency declaration ended. Expired compensatory time governed by

this subsection shall be reinstated as of the effective date of this

act, and accumulation limits for compensatory time shall not apply

to amounts accrued or reinstated pursuant to this subsection.

Eligibility for reinstatement of compensatory time is limited to

employees currently employed by the State of Oklahoma on the

effective date of this act.