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B-226795 1 (1987-08-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadmul0001 and id is 1 raw text is: .The Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matterof: Carl R. Leonard - Commuting Costs: Temporary Duty vs. Permanent Change of Official Station File: B-226795 Date: August 20, 1987 DIGEST 1. Claim for mileage for commuting between Mitchell, Indiana, and Tell City, Indiana, over a 3-year period is denied since an employee must bear the cost of commuting between his residence and his official duty station. 2. Whether a particular duty station is permanent or temporary is a question of fact to be determined from the orders, and where necessary, from the character of the assignment, particularly the duration and nature of the duty. Where the employee was given permanent duty, change- of-station travel orders, advanced relocation expenses and assigned the same type of field engineering work at the new duty station, the assignment is a permanent duty assignment. The permanent character of the assignment is not affected by the employee's retransfer after 3 years to a prior duty station. 3. Claim for overtime compensation for time spent commuting between Mitchell, Indiana, and Tell City, Indiana, outside of the normal duty hours is denied. The general rule is that time spent traveling between an employee's residence and his permanent duty station is not compensable traveltime. 4. The General Accounting Office will not inquire into matters relating to a grievance. Such matters are within the jurisdiction of the employing agency and the Office of Personnel Management. DECISION This responds to a request by Mr. G. E. Tipton, an author- ized certifying officer of the Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), for a decision on the claim of Mr. Carl R. Leonard, an employee of the Forest Service. Mr. Leonard, a resident of Mitchell, Indiana, requests $43,525.85 for mileage and overtime compensation in ('7)5qr 19

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