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B-194451 1 (1980-03-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadicq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1Z17X DECISION FILE: B-19445 co THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL . OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, D. C. 20548 March 25, 1980 1 . DATE:. MATTER OF: William S. Reustle - Overtime Compensation - Travel Time to Temporary Duty Station DIGEST: FAA Electronic Technician claims overtime for daily travel for 14 days between regular duty station and nearby temporary duty station on erroneous theory that he could .not be ordered to report directly to temporary duty station. Claim may not be allowed. Travel was commuting to place of work, was not inherent part of or in- separable from work, Was not performed during tour of duty, and was not otherwise within the purview of 5 U.S. C. § 5542(b)(2). -.Mr. William S. Reustle has appealed the disallowance of his Lclaim for overtime compensation for travel tim between his regular ad temporary duty stations. Mr. Reustle was employed as an Electronic Technician GS-12 by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) at Petaluma, California. His position was exempt from the provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act. In the latter part of 1977 he was ordered to report to and perform his regular 8 hour tour of duty at a temporary duty station, the Santa Rosa Airport, for approximately 14 days. The airport was about one-half hour travel time distant from his regular duty station. He drove his privately owned vehicle between his residence and the temporary duty station each day, stopping both going and returning at his regular duty station which was in his direct line of travel. He received a mileage allowance for the distance he traveled each day between his regular and temporary duty stations. It appears to be Mr. Reustle's contention that this temporary duty assignment, requiring him to report for work at a station different from his regular duty station, could not properly be ordered because an FAA regulation required that an employee be given 60 days advance notice of a reassignment which involves relocation. He says that the order was abandoned when man- agement finally became convinced of the error. Therefore, he 4 \lV~o'*

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