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B-201084,B-201085 1 (1981-10-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadjue0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 4, 41 THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL 'DECISION . OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. 0.C. 20548 FILE: B-201084 and B-201085 DATE: October 9, 1981 MATTER OF: Dwain L. Baxter and H. Russell Hunter DIGEST: FAA employees assigned to remote radar site at Sawtelle Peak, Idaho, are entitled to be compensated for travel time to and from Ashton, Idaho, where employees are required to pick up and return Government vehicles and other special purpose vehicles necessary to negotiate route to radar site. This duty is an inherent part of and inseparable from their work and is compensable as hours of work under 5 U.S.C. § 5542(b)(2). By letters dated June 2, 1980 and May 23, 1980, Messrs. Dwain L. Baxter and H. Russell Hunter, employ- ees of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Western Region, appeal the determination of our Claims Group, dated April 10, 1980, which disallowed their claims for additional overtime compensation for the period January 1967, to December 1974. The claims are for overtime compensation under the provisions of the Federal Employees Pay Act of 1945, as amended, 5 U.S.C. S 5542 (1970), for time spent in a standby duty status at the Sawteile Peak, Idaho, radar facility. The em- ployees were found to have been entitled to overtime compensation and were paid in August 1975. The essence of the present appeal is that travel time, under the circumstances to be enumerated below, should also be considered compensable time in calculating the employees overtime. For the reasons which follow, we believe the travel time should be considered compensable hours of work, and the employees are, therefore, due additional compensation. The FAA paid both claimants for the overtime duty based on a formula approved by our Office. The formula equated standby time to the total elapsed time minus the hours for which the claimants had already been com- pensated with regular or overtime pay, minus 8 hours for each 24-hour period in accordance with the two- thirds rule, under which an employee who is required

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