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    MATTER OF:      Sunday premium pay - Employees at US
                    Army Communications Command, Detroit

    DIGEST:     Midnight shift employees at US Army
                Communications Command, Detroit, whose
                tour of duty is from 2345 Sunday to 0745
                Monday are entitled to Sunday premium pay
                for entire 8-hour period since there is
                no requirement in 5 U.S.C. § 5546(a)
                (1976) for performance of minimum period
                of Sunday work as condition of entitlement
                to premium pay benefits.

     The Chief, Accounting and Finance Division, US Army Tank-
Automotive Command, Warren, Michigan, has requested an advance
decision whether seven general schedule civilian employees at
the US Army Communications Command, Detroit, whose regularly
scheduled tours of duty include duty from 2345 Sunday to 0745
Monday, are entitled to Sunday premium pay for that entire
8-hour period. The answer is yes.

     The facts are as follows. The tour of duty of the midnight
shift at the US Army Communications Command, Detroit, is from
2400 to 0800 6 days a week, and 2345 Sunday to 0745 Monday.
The Sunday schedule was adjusted to ensure continuity of opera-
tions between the afternoon and midnight shifts. The midnight
shift employees now are claiming entitlement to premium pay for
the entire 8-hour period of duty beginning at 2345 Sunday. No
Sunday premium pay has been paid to any of the employees.

     Entitlement to Sunday premium pay is based on 5 U.S.C.
§ 5546(a) (1976), which provides:

          An employee who performs work during
    a regularly scheduled 8-hour period of ser-
    vice which is not overtime work as defined
    by section 5542(a) of this title a part of
    which is performed on Sunday is entitled to
    pay for the entire period of service at the
    rate of his basic pay, plus premium pay at
    a rate equal to 25 percent of his rate of
    basic pay.

    The position of the Command has been that the regulation
implementing the statute, 5 C.F.R. § 550.171 (1980), and the
Standard Army Civilian Payroll System, Chapter 3, para-
graph 3-6(f), authorize premium pay only for each complete


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DECISION


FILE:


THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL
OF THE UNITEO STATES
WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548




      DATE: June 30, 1981

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