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B-173783.127 1 (1975-02-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacyyi0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 256 UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 GE OF GENERAL COUNSEL 3-173783.127 FEB 7 1975 Mr. B. K. Meade, Chief Control Networks Division (Retired) National Geodetic Survey NOA-National Ocean Survey Rockville, Maryland 20852 Dear Mr. Meade: We refer to your letter of January 13, 1975, with enclosures, requesting a ruling on the legal aspects of a decision by your former employing agency, the Department of Commerce, to change the official payday for its employees from January 1, 1975, to December 31, 1974. It has long been our practice to render formal decisions only to heads of departments and agencies, disbursing and certifying officers, and to claimants who have filed monetary claims with our Office, with cestain other exceptions not relevant in this instance. See 31 U.S.C. 74Wnd 824(1970). However, we offer the following informal comments on the question you have raised. The decision of the Department of Commerce to change its payday from January 1, 1975, to December 31, 1974, appears to conform to current Government policy with regard to agencies whose paydays fall on holidays. The Division of Disbursements Procedures Manual, Part I, $ 1116 (April 1973), issued by the Fiscal Service Bureau of Government Financial Operations, Department of the Treasury, states in pertinent part: * * * Special arrangements may be necessary when the payday falls on a holiday. With the exception of central payrolls which are processed on a fragmented basis, each disbursing center may make special arrange- ments with the agency for dating and releasing the checks on the first workday preceding the normal payday, provided agencies can submit check issue data and certi- fications in ample time for disbursing office processing. Otherwise, checks will be dated on the first workday following the holiday. When the January 1 holiday

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