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B-211696 1 (1983-09-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadlij0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ' THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL 0ECIflION OF THE UNITED STATES 'WASHINGTON. 0. C. 20548 FILE: B-211696 DATE: September 26, 1983 MATTER OF: Overtime Compensation for Fire- fighters on Temporary Duty DIGEST: There is no basis for providing Federal firefighters who attend training with additional compensation where their entitlement to overtime compensation under the Fair Labor Standards Act is reduced due to a shorter tour of duty while attending the training. This action is in response to a request from Mr. James M. Peirce, President, National Federation of Federal Employees, for a decision on whether firefighters at Andrews Air Force Base are entitled to the same compensation that they would normally receive during their regularly scheduled 144-hour tour of duty at the Base for those work periods in which they attend required training away from their official duty station. This matter has been presented under our procedures set forth at 4 C.F.R. Part 22 (1983) for decisions on appropriated fund expenditures which are of mutual concern to agencies and labor organizations. For the reasons set forth below, the firefighters whose entitlement to overtime compensation under the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. § 201 et seq., has been reduced as a result of attendance at training are not entitled to additional compensation. Information forwarded with Mr. Peirce's letter indicates that the firefighters at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, are regularly scheduled to work a tour of duty of 144 hours in each biweekly work period and that they receive overtime compensation under the Fair Labor Standards Act for those hours in excess of 108 hours in their biweekly tour of duty. Thus, the firefighters ordinarily receive overtime compensation under the Act for 36 hours in each biweekly work peiviod. Apparently, the firefighters are required to attend periodic training away from their official duty station, and for those biweekly work periods in which a firefighter attends a training course his entitlement to overtime compensation under the Act is either eliminated or reduced. The Federation contends that a firefighter should not have to lose overtime compensation as a result of attendance at mandatory training but should instead receive his regular salary as if normal work were being performed. ,~j)4 VC

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