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B-207732 1 (1983-07-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadlew0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 0 - THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION f . OF THE UNITED STATES ~ ~ WASHI4NGTON. D.C. 20548 FILE: B-207732 DATE: July 13, 1983 MATTER OF: Bureau of Engraving and Printing - Paid Lunch Periods - GAO Jurisdiction - DJGEST: Labor Management Factual Dispute Under 4 C.F.R. § 22.8 (1983) GAO will not take jurisdiction over a labor-management matter which is unduly speculative or otherwise not appropriate for decision. Since this case is based on factual issues which are irreconcilably in dispute, it would be more appropriately resolved through the grievance procedures set forth in the parties' negotiated labor-manage- ment agreement, or through negotiation. Therefore, under 4 C.F.R. § 22.8, GAO will exercise its discretion to decline jurisdiction in this matter. The Department of the Treasury has asked us whether it may discontinue the longstanding practice at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) and the Bureau of the Mint (Mint) of providing employees with a paid one-half hour lunch period during each 8-hour workday, in light of certain alleged changes in the working conditions at those agencies. However, since this case involves issues which would be more appropriately resolved through labor-management negotiations or through grievance and arbitration procedures, we decline to take jurisdiction over this matter. Furthermore, since the basic factual issues underlying this case are irreconcilably in dispute in the record before us, not only between management and the unions, but among different offices within the Department itself, the matter is not appropriate for a decision by our Office on the merits. This decision is in response to a letter from Mr. Peter J. Wallison, General Counsel of the Department of the Treasury, requesting a review of our prior decision, B-56940, May 1, 1946, which authorized BEP and the Mint to provide their employees with a paid one-half hour lunch / 0)i S-7(

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