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GGD-95-129R 1 (1995-04-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobackuk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: United States GAO General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 General Government Division B-260221 April 14, 1995 The Honorable Bruce F. Vento House of Representatives Dear Mr. Vento: We are responding to your request for information on the management of administratively uncontrollable overtime (AUO) in the U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and National Park Service (NPS). AUO is a type of premium pay used to compensate federal employees, such as law enforcement officers, who perform substantial amounts of irregular, unscheduled overtime work and who are responsible for recognizing, without supervision, circumstances which require them to remain on duty. Our objectives were to determine (1) whether the AUO programs were being administered according to governmentwide and agency-specific criteria; (2) whether employees were abusing their agencies' AUO programs; and (3) how much the agencies were spending on AUO. To meet our objectives, we interviewed personnel and law enforcement officials at the agencies' headquarters and Denver, Santa Fe, Sacramento, and San Francisco field offices and collected the agencies' AUO policies. We also obtained time and attendance files as well as other records used to document AUO for all employees who received these payments during the period October 1992 through April 1994. From those records, we randomly selected 70 files which we used as case studies. This sample reflects what we found at the locations we visited and cannot be generalized to the three agencies' other field locations or to the government as a whole. The agencies estimated they spent approximately $6 million in AUO payments in 1994. The three agencies generally administered their AUO programs in accordance with criteria established in law and the Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) governmentwide regulations. That is, AUO was used, for the most part, in work situations where compelling reasons related to the performance of an employee's duties arose that GAO/GGD-95-129R Administratively Uncontrollable Overtime

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