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B-183916 1 (1976-03-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaddes0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE CDMPTROLLER GEN1ERAL DECIO N OF THE UNITED STATES . V- ~'A -N G TON , 0.C . 2 05 48E FILE: B-183918 DATE: MAR 8 13706 MATTER OF: Donald W. Plaskett - Overtime Compensation DIGEST: Disallowance of claim for 157 hours of overtime is sustained as overtime was not ordered or approved and it must be officially ordered or approved before reimbursement can be made. See 5 U. S. C. § 5542(a) and cited cases. By a letter dated June 19, 1975, Mr. Donald W. Plaskett appealed the Certificate of Settlement issued by our Transporation and Claims Division (now Claims Division) which disallowed Mr. Plaskett's claim for 157 hours overtime. The overtime occurred between July and December of 1973 while Mr. Plaskett was employed as a medical administrator, GS-301-14, with the Defense Attache Cffice of the Embassy of the United States of America in Saigon, Vietnam. The claim was disallowed as the overtime was not officially ordered or approved as is required by 5 U. S. C. § 5542(a) (Supp. III, 1973). The record shows that Mr. Plaskett worked for the Defense Attache Office from March 1973 to June 1974. From March through June 1973 he was located within the Resources Management B3ranch. In July 1973 he was transferred to the Support Division, under the direction of Mr. Richard D. DeSando, GS-15. One of the duties M'r. Plaskett per- formed as medical administrator was coordinatirg nede-vac pickups. This function involved responding to re'quests from- the U. S. Embassy's chief physician to arrange a mede-vac within a time frame that had been established jointly by hospital personnel and chief physician. The over- time in question is claimed for work performed in coordinating mede- vac s. Mr. Plaskett requested block authorization for overtime in July 1973. This reouest was denied. Afterwards the claimant annotated his time card noting work performed but did not specifically request authorization from his supervisor on a case by case basis. On February 11, 1974, Mr. Plaskett filed a formal grievance which involved inter alia his request for overtime. The Examiner's Report, released Apri17 1974, recommended that Mr. Plaskett be paid for 4 hours of overtime per week which he had been ordered to work on Saturdays, but did not recommend that his claim for the irregular overtime in question here be paid, as it had not been officially ordered or approved. The Examiner's Report further recommended continu- ation of a managment-initiated study of mede-vac cases to determine if approval of additional hours of overtime was warranted. Mr. Plaskett N

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