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DATE:    bary  23, 1978


F:  John T. Teuke - Premium Pay Por
    Standby Duty At Home

1.  Claimant, a radiology technician
    employed by Veterans Administra-
    tion, may not receive premium pay
    for on-call duty.performed at
    his home or within 25 miles of
    hospital because Veterans Admin-
    istratior, had not designated his
    homp as his duty station and his
    activities were not so narrowly
    restricted as to bring him within
    the purview of 5 U.S.C. 5 5545(c)(1)
    ps implemented by 5 C.P.E. S 550.143.


             2.  Radiology technician who
                 while on call was required
                 to be available by telephone or
                 paging device with range of 25
                 miles, either at his residence
                 or elsewhere within 1 hour's
                 drive to work, is not entitled
                 to overtime compensation for
                 standby duty under 5 U.S.C.
                 5 5542 since, in view of
                 relative freedom of location
                 and activity, time spent on call
                 was not spent predominately for
                 his employcr's benefit.

    --Thisdecision is issued in response to a request
for reconsideration of the action taken August 25, 1977,
'by our Claims Division dinallowing the claim of Mr. John T.
Taske for premium pay for standby 'duty covering the period
from October 18, 1970, through April 27, 1975, as a
special procedure techniciar employed by the Veterans
Administration (VA) Hospital at DWrmingham, Alabama.

     The record reveals that during the period in question,
the claihnant was periodically scheduled to remain on-
call to perform special radiological procedures during


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