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B-205811 1 (1982-08-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadkol0001 and id is 1 raw text is: - -t|~S h*.es DECISION FILE: THE COMPTRLOILOlG E1NWFRAL OP THI IUNITED STATES WgUHINOTON, 0.0, O0n40 B-205011 MATTER OF: DATE; Auigust 18, 1992 Panama Canat Commission DIGEST: There is o authority for the Panama canal commissionsto pay the difference between the cost of shipping an employee's privately owned vehicl.- on a Military Sealift Command vessel and the lower cost previously charged employees for sipment on a Commission operated vessel (now decommissioned) on grounds that Panama Canal Treaty of 1977 and Panama Canal Act of 1979 state khat terms and conditions of employment should not be leas favorable than before the Treaty entered into force, Terms and conditions of employment with regard to transportation benefits are those entitlements recognized by statute and do not extend to the privilege of a permissive shipment of personal belongings on a space-available basis. The Administrator of the Panama Canal Commission has requested our decision ris to whether the Commission may waive a portion ofoits claim against a commission employee for the cost of shipping the employee's pr- vately owned vehicle, under the Commission's auspices, aboard a Military Sealift Command vessel from New Orleans, Louisiana, to the Republic of Panama. The employee had originally'chipped his vehicle ,o New Onleana aboard the Commission operated S/S CRISTOBAL. The amount in question is the difference between the cost charged the employee for return shipment of the vehicleraboard a Sealift Command vessel ($2,006.45) and the rate appli- cable had the vehicle been returncd aboard the CRISTOBdL ($355.50). The Sealift Command vilsse. was used because the CRISTOBAL was decommissioned while the employee was in the United States. The shipment in question here was not for an authorihed replacement vehicle and was not related to recruitment or repatriation travel or trans- portation autorized under 5IU.S.C. 5i5724a or applicable Federal Travel Regulations. Instead, it was for the pur- pose of returnina the vehicle to Panama from the United Status where the employee had shipped it for his use while on leave. The circumste.nces that give rise to this request are as follows. Between October 1979 and September 1.981 the I 1a

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