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B-179186 1 (1976-04-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadiyn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ( . THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DTECISIoN /°t2-4. OF THE UNITED STATES -AZWASHINGTON. 0. C. 20548 Ae 131976 i FILE: lB-179186 DATE: Cl0 MATTER OF: Department of Interior - Reconsideration of Mine Inspectors' Compensable Traveltime DIGEST: 1. Mine inspectors who work first-40-hour workweeks may be compensated for time spent in travel on official business during their first 40 hours. Any time spent in nontravel work after first 40 hours is compensable overtime. B-179186, October 24, 1973, modified. 2. Mine inspectors' travel, which due to nature of the mine Inspection work is found to be an inherent part of and inseparable from their work, is compensable as regular or overtime work. However, mine in- spectors are prohibited from receiving overtime compensation for any time they spend in training under the Government Employees Training Act. 5 U. S. C. § 4109. B-179186, October 24, 1973, modified. This decision involves a request from James T. Clarke, Assistant Secretary of the Interior, for reconsideration of our decision B-179186. Cctober 24, 1973. That decision concerned the payment of overtime compensation to inspectional employees of the Bureau of Mines, Department of the Interior, who performed a sub- stantial amount of travel away from their official duty stations. BACKGROUND In decision B-179186, sur, we stated that with regard to those employees whose workweek was the first 40 hours of duty, hours of duty or hours worked included _ * * all time during which an em- ployee is required to be on duty at his headquarters or to be at a pre- scribed work place and time spent in travel to and from a prescribed place of duty will not be considered hours of duty unless such travel ualifies under one of the four considerations specified in 5 U. S. C. § 5542(b)(2)(B). Therefore, we held that Bureau of Mine inspectors who worked a first-40-hour workweek were improperly paid overtime compensation for time spent in traveling to and from their work. We ,0f.j 7 ? C:= ,: (}~99O7q~ ~e77~7~/

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