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B-222700 1 (1986-10-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadmni0001 and id is 1 raw text is: wsI I The Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision ,atterof: Gerald C. Holst File' B-222700 Date: October 17, 2.986 DIGEST Department of Army employee may not receive overtime compen- sation in connection with overseas travel that was performed outside of regularly scheduled administrative workweek. Although meeting dates could not be controlled by agency, 75-day advance notice of meeting dates provided ample opportunity for employee and agency to schedule actaal travel .. -planning r-,guirdments in advance- so that itcodldbe peformed Within the employee's regularly scheduled ,workweek, Claims for overtime compensation are denied since record fails to indicate any immediate official necessity for employee's travel within the meaning of 5 U.S.C. S 5542(b)(2)(B)(iv) and decisions of this Office construing that overtime entitlement authority. DECISION This responds to a request from Edward J. Poziomek, Director of Research, Aberdeen Proving Ground, U.S. Army Chemical Research and Development Center (CRUC), concerning overtime compensation requests from Mr. Gerald C. Holst', a retired CRDC employee. On May 29, 1984, Mr. Holst submitted 32 requests for payment of overtime as a result of his perform- ing travel on Saturdays and Sundays during the period from January 20, 1980, to March 17, 1984, in connection with his attendance at North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) meetings in support of the NATO Army Armaments Group Project, Group 16. We find that, althoughthe travel resulted from Mr. Holst's attendance at meetings scheduled by NATO and therefore beyond the administrative control of CRDC, the routine advance notice of 75 days before the meetings does not comprehend the immediate official necessity contem- plated by overtime entitlement authorities. We therefore deny the claims. The Project Group 16 consisted of a Main Panel that met 18 times and a Trials Panel that met 20 times. As Chairman of the Trials Panel, Mr. Holst attended all of its meetings and

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