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092994 1 (1971-04-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacwwd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: / ~ / J UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 CIVIL DIVISION APR 3 0 1971 LM092994 Dear Mr. Farrell: The General Accounting Office has made a review of selected administrative operations of the Boston District Office. Boston, Massachusetts, and the Northeast Regional Office, Burlington, Vermont, of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), Department of Justice. We reviewed and evaluated selected administrative procedures and internal controls, including such tests of financial transactions as we deemed appropriate. On February 24, 1971, we issued a letter report to the Regional Commissioner, Northeast Regional Office, concerning the need to improve a number of administrative procedures and internal controls. A copy of the report was furnished your office. In addition, we found ques- tionable overtime claims and a need to reevaluate the usefulness of electronic vehicle and pedestrian counting devices. These matters are discussed below for your consideration and appropriace action. QUESTIONABLE UNCONTROLLABLE OVERTIME CLAIMS Our review showed that-investigators of the Boston District Office often traveled to and from places where official business was trans- acted outside the normal workday and in excess of the basic 40-hour workweek. These investigators claimed travel time as compensable uncontrollable overtime. In a memorandum dated January 11, 1962, to all INS regional offices, the Associate Commissioner, Management, stated that travel time was considered as hours of employment onily when it (1) occurred within the employee's regularly scheduled workweek, including regularly scheduled overtime, (2) involved the Derformance of work while traveling, or (3) was carried out under arduous conditions which had the effect of making such travei inseparable from work. Officials of the Boston District Office informed us that travel time to locations where official business was transacted may be 50TH ANIVER ARY 1921-1971

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