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B-195692 1 (1981-05-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadjiw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION . OF THE UNITED STATES 0WASHINGTON. 0.C. 2054E FILE: B-195692 DATE: May 5, 1981 (7 MATTER OF: United States Government Printing Office , Security Police Employees 0 DIGEST: Security police employees of the United States Government Printing .Office who, as a result of their work schedule, must acquire their uniforms during their off-duty hours are not f,47;/wmr ^71.1 to overtime compensation for 4e time spent in acquiring t-e-r uniforms_. The time involved does not constitute overtime work for the purposes of 5 U.S.C. § 5544 (1976). In addition, the time spent by the employees is not compensable as overtime hours worked under the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. § 201 et seq. The issue in the present case is whether security police employees of the United States Government Printing Office (GPO) are entitled to receive overtime compensation for off-duty time spent acquiring uniforms prescribed by the GPO to be worn in the performance of official duties. For the following reasons, there is no basis to pay the employees overtime compensation under either 5 U.S.C. § 5544 (1976) or the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended, 29 U.S.C. § 201 et seq. (1976). The question was presented by Vincent T. McCarthy, Esq., General Counsel, United States Government Printing Office. Prior to January 1979, GPO security police employees were paid a uniform allowance in accordance with 44 U.S.C. S 309(a) and 5 U.S.C. § 5901. Each employee then purchased his/her uniform from private vendors on off-duty time without compensation. Subsequently, the GPO standardized its uniforms with those of the General Services Administra- tion (GSA). In connection with this, GPO entered into an arrangement with the GSA whereby the GPO security police uniform items could be obtained from the GSA store in Bladensburg, Maryland. The GSA store is open Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Since the store operates only during I(/6?3

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