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B-214886 1 (1984-07-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadltx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER GENENAL ECIUION OP THE UNITED STATUE WASHINGTON. O.C. 20548 cut I T1 ' FILE: B-214886 OATE: July 3, 1984 MATTER OF: Michael K. Vessey - Weekend Personal Travel OIGEST: An employee who is stationed in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and resides in Portland, Maine, was assigned to temporary duty in Arlington, Virginia. Based on agency officials' verbal approval, which was later confirmed in writing, the employee traveled to Kansas City, Missouri, on the Thanksgiving holiday weekend for personal reasons. The employee may not be reim- bursed for his transportation expenses to and from Kansas City, since such travel was not to the employee's headquarters or place of abode from which he commutes daily to his official station. FTR paragraphs 1-7.5c and 1-8.4f. Further- more, the Government cannot be b6und by the erroneous acts or advice of its agents. The International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, Local No. 4, requests our decision concerning the claim of Mr. Michael K. Vessey, a civilian employee of the Department of the Navy, Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire. This case was sub- mitted under our procedures for consideration of labor- management issues involving appropriated funds, 4 C.F.R. Part 22 (1984). The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard and other Navy offices within the Pentagon were served with copies of the submission, but none of these offices has provided us with their views. Mr. Vessey's claim is for reimbursement for transpor- tation expenses he incurred during a Thanksgiving holiday weekend trip away from his temporary duty station. The employee's claim may not be allowed, for there is no authority for such reimbursement. Furthermore, it is not material that Navy officials approved Mr. Vessey's travel, since the Government cannot be bound by the erroneous acts or advice of its agents.

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