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B-229193 1 (1987-12-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadmxz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: The Comptroller General of the United States Wahington, D.C. 20548 UN I1 Decision Matterof. Louis R. Crooks - Overtime Compensation File: B-229193 Date: December Ii, 1987 DIGEST 1. Claim for overtime compensation is time-barred under 31 U.S.C. S 3702(b)(1) to the extent that it accrued more than 6 years before it was received by the General Account- ing Office (GAO). Filing of a claim with the employing agency does not toll the running of the limitation period, nor is the limitation period affected by the employing agency's delay in processing the claim and forwarding it to GAO. 2. Record is insufficient to establish entitlement to overtime compensation under 5 U.S.C. S 5544 in the absence of clear evidence that the claimant employee was either officially required or was affirmatively authorized or induced to work overtime hours. The claimant's mere statements to this effect, which are not corroborated by agency records or the statements of his supervisors, do not satisfy the claimant's burden of proof. DECISION Mr. Louis R. Crooks, a civilian employee of the Department of the Army, has appealed a settlement by our Claims Group, Z-2864556, dated July 1, 1987, which denied his claim for overtime compensation for work performed on several oc- casions from 1979 through 1984. We affirm the Claims Group's denial of Mr. Crooks' claim. BACKGROUND During the period relevant to his claim, Mr. Crooks was employed by the Department of the Army as a grade WS-5 Transportation Warehouse Supervisor at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. In connection with the so-called Exodus Program, which evidently involved large troop movements by rail from Fort Jackson, Mr. Crooks contends that he per- formed overtime work on the following occasions:

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