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B-195688 1 (1980-02-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadhzd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 0LLLk Ci ~r~r-, THE COZMPTROLLER GENEVIAL OF THE UNITD STATES t7 734 WASHINGTON. D. C. 20548 FILE: B-195688 DATE: February 6, 1980 MATTER OF: Donald L. Oghurn --Excused AbsenceA Snow Emergency- Delayed Return to Duty Employee of FAA was unable to return to duty after hunting trip because of snow emergency which affected both hunting site and duty station. Employee's office remained open and Federal Personnel Manual guidelines authorize agency to grant excused absence based on individual circumstances. Peggy Ann Mistler, B-193389, November 29, 1978, which barred excused ab- sence caused by snow emergency at vacation site only, does not preclude grant of excused absence based on individual facts where emergency affected ) duty station also. The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) requests our decision whether administrative leave (paid excused absence without charge to annual or sick leave) may be granted to DDnald L. Ogburn, an employee who was de- layed in returning to work because emergency conditions causedit' by a snowstorm affected both the employee's vacation site and his place of employment. Robert J. Kaps, Assistant Chief, Operations, Procedures and Airspace Branch, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Central Region, posed this question and asked that PATCO present it to the Comptroller General in con- nection with four snow leave grievances (ACE-79-6, 7, 17, and 18-ZKC-3) of certain FAA employees. PATCO's attorney has presented the case of Donald L. Ogburn (ACE-79-6) as representative of all four grievances for the purpose of resolving the issue. Mr. Ogburn, an employee of FAA's Air Route Traffic Control Center, Olathe, Kansas, took annual leave on January 11, 1979, and went to Beloit, Kansas, on a hunting trip. The following 2 days, January 12-13, were his regular days off. He planned to return home on January 13; however snow began falling the afternoon of January 12, and when it stopped on the 13th, the State of Kansas was left paralyzed. The Kansas iighway Patrol advised that all roads in North Central Kansas were closed. As a result of the snow emergency,. he did not attempt to drive bomne to Olathe until Januatry 14, and did not arrive there until 9 p. m. that evening, too late for his C7 DIGEST: 13 IM C 18 10 N

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