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B-180962 1 (1979-08-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadhmw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I? THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OE-CISION * OF THE UNITEO STATES WASHINGTON. D. C. 20548 FILE: B-180962 DATE: August 13, 1979 MATTER OF: Canal Zone Employees -Hazardous Duty Pay for QIGEST. Canal Zone leprosarium employees claim hazardous duty pay. Statutes providing such pay for Public Health Service employees (42 U.S. C. § 210(e)) and military personnel (37 U. S. C. -§ 301(a)(7)) do not apply to Canal Zone employees. Furthermore, such additional pay is not part of basic pay to be considered under wage fixing authority of Canal Zone Government under 2 C. Z. C. § 144. A This decision is in response to the request of Walter D. Bjorseth, Financial Vice-President, Panama Canal Company, for our review of a decision by the Canal Zone Government Y denying the claims of 33 employees of the Palo Seco leprosarium for hazardous duty pay. The Panama Canal Company has for- warded this request since it performs a claims review function for the Canal Zone Government. The issue presented for our decision is whether these Canal Zone employees are entitled to additional pay comparable to the hazardous duty pay afforded to employees of the Public Health Service and members of the uniformed services who perform substantially identical work. BACKGROUND In 1972 these 33 employees filed a claim with our Claims Division for hazardous duty pay, and this claim was denied by our Claims Division in 1973. The claimants appealed the denial and, by decision B-180962, May 14,. 1975, we vacated the Claims Division settlement on the basis that the claimants had not ex- ercised their rights under either agency grievance or position classification appeal procedures. We referred these claims to the Canal Zone Government for its determination, and we sug- gested that the claimants could appeal an adverse decision to our Office for review. The Canal Zone Government subsequently denied these claims, and the claimants requested our review of this determination.

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