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B-197037 1 (1980-07-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadijm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 0 E CI SD0N ~iI JIB' ~ LER / / THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL 'OP THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, 0. C. 20548 V L_ FILE: B-197037 DATE: July 1, 1980 MATTER OF: Roundin up and rounding down odd min- utes41 irregular unscheduled overtime7 DIGEST: GAO has no legal objection to proposal of Director, Office of Personnel Management, to provide by regulation, under its authority in sections 5504, 5548, and 6101 of title 5, United States Code, that an agency may institute the practice of rounding up and rounding down to nearest quarter hour (or fractions less than a quarter of hour) for crediting irregular, unscheduled overtime work under sections 5542, 5544, and 5550 of title 5, United States Code. ,The Director of the Office of Personnel Manage- mentby letter dated November 29, 1979, has requested an opinion of this Office in regard to the following proposed action on the part of the Officeof Personnel Management (OPM): * * ,we are considering providing by regulation, under our authority in sections 5504, 5548, and 6101 of title 5, United States Code, that an agency may institute the practice of 'rounding up' and 'rounding down' to the nearest quarter hour (or fractions less than a quarter of an hour, i.e., 10 minutes, 6 minutes, etc.) for crediting irregular, unscheduled over- time worI`under sections 5542, 5544, and 5550 of fttle 5, United States Code. * * * More specifically, the Director's request is framed against the following interpretive reasoning and background information: In administering the overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), we have I1I?2.91Z- /71 A 0 . . , zz Q P

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