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FPCD-82-7 1 (1981-12-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabcto0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER GKNERAL OF THE UNITED STAT RELEASED 8-205308 DECEMBER 16, :1981 The Honorable Mark O. Hatfield Chairman, Committee on Appropriations United States Senate The onorable William Proxmire 117129 Ranking Minority Member Committee on Appropriations United States Senate Subjects Federal Employees' Use Of Annual Leave While On Official Travel (FPCD-82-7) On June 10, 1981, you asked us to review the extent to which Federal employees take annual leave while away from their duty istation on official travel. Representatives of your office later modified this request to exclude travel for relocation and en- titlement purposes from the study. Federal employees frequently have to take annual leave for personal reasons when moving their residences from one location to another, and entitlement travel includes trips for home leave for employees stationed overseas. In October 1981# we briefed representatives of your office on 'the results of our study. Our objectives were to (1) determine how often Fedqral em- ployees took annual leave while on official travel and 2) gather descriptive information on trips during which employees used an- nual leave. As agreed with representatives of your office, we used information available at the General Services Admilistration (GSA) in Washington, D.C. Under Public Law 96-346, GSA is re- quired to report to the Congress on the use of travel fmds by each agency which spends more than $5 million on the tr nsporta- tion of persons during fiscal years 1979, 1980, and 1981. For its report on fiscal year 19801 GSA requested agencies, which spent more than the $5 million, to submit a random sample of 200 vouchers. We used these samples because (1) they were readily available, (2) employees are required to record the use of annual leave on their travel vouchers, and (3) the samples allowed us to project our findings to almost all Government travel during fiscal year 1980. GSA received samples from 26 Government departments and agencies. While each agency submitted about 200 vouchers, the vouchers often represented more than one trip. GSA did not \'\-1~ (966 046)

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