Rainbow City compared to Alabama state average: 1  Unemployed percentage significantly below state average. 2  Black race population percentage significantly below state average. 3  Hispanic race population percentage significantly below state average. 4  Foreign-born population percentage significantly below state average.
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 Act applies on a workweek basis. An employee's workweek is a fixed and regularly recurring period of 168 hours  seven consecutive 24-hour periods. It need not coincide with the calendar week, but may begin on any day and at any hour of the day.