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B-107407 1 (1980-06-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabjtt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: SPc9 COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. D.C. M1U8 B-107407 FPC-96-2-38 J 3 '98U A.- The Honorable Abraham Ribicoff Chairman, Committee on Governmental Affairs United States Senate Dear Mr. Chairman: We would like to urge your favorablecnsideration of S. 25631 a bill to limit certain entitlements and allowances receive by Federal employees in United States areas outside the conterminous 48 States. Section 3 of the bill essentially adopts the recommen- dations in our enclosed 1977 report about free vacation travel that agencies are required to give certain employees and their families overseas. Returning these employees from their overseas locations to their former homes every 2 or 3 years is no longer a useful incentive to recruit or retain trained personnel. Most of these areas are no longer iso- lated or arduous, and employees have made them their perma- nent homes. The areas also have a ready supply of talented people, and the free trips are largely viewed as unearned perquisites by local communities and other employees who do not qualify because they were recruited locally--particularly when many employees use the benefit for touring rather than returning to their former homes. Moreover, non-Federal employers generally do not provide similar benefits. Limiting free travel as contemplated by S. 2563 would remedy these inequities and save Federal funds. At the same time, agencies would still have the flexibility to offer the benefit when actually necessary, for instance, to recruit employees to serve at hardship stations. Other sections of the bill would similarly limit other entitlements for these employees, such as shipment of house- hold goods and personal vehicles, additional compensation due to conditions of environment, and accumulations of 01074±6

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