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B-199646 1 (1981-08-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadjpy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ~0-LE It ~/£C2/ 0 . THE COMPTROLLE GENERAL DECISION - OF THE UNITED BTATES '~WASHINGTON, 0..C. 20548 FILE: B-199646 DATE: August 11, 1981 MATTER OF: Internal Revenue Service - Entitlement to Overtime Compensation for Traveltime Outside Working Hours DIGEST: Internal Revenue Service employees, whose return trips to their official duty stations were interrupted by snowstorm, resumed their return travel outside regular duty hours. They are not entitled to overtime compensa- tion for traveltime since their travel did not meet any of the conditions set forth in 5 U.S.C. § 5542(b)(2)(B) (1976). This action is in response to a request from D. S. Burckman, Director, Personnel Division, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), for our determination of the entitle- ment of certain IRS employees to compensatory time or over- time compensation for travel outside of their regular duty hours occasioned by a severe snowstorm in the vicinity of Denver, Colorado, which interfered with normal travel in that area on Friday, January 25, 1980. The employees, who have requested compensation for time spent in travel status outside their regular duty hours, were returning home from training or temporary duty assignments at the time of the storm. The first of the three groups of employees consists of five employees who were attending a training class in Dallas, Texas. They were scheduled to leave Dallas at 2 p.m. on Friday, but their flight was delayed there for 2 hours. Be- cause of the blizzard, the plane could not land in Denver, and instead it landed at the Salt Lake City Airport at 5:30 p.m. The employees waited there for 1 and 1/2 hours, after which they were sent to a motel for the night at the expense of the commercial carrier. They left the motel at 8 a.m. Saturday morning, departed from Salt Lake City at 9 a.m., and arrived in Denver at 11:15 a.m. Four of these employees who lived in Denver arrived home at approximately 12 noon on Saturday; the fifth employee, who lives in Grand Junction, took a 9 p.m. flight from Denver which arrived at 10:30 p.m. Saturday night. He arrived at home at approximately 11 p.m. Saturday. In the next instance, a manager who was in travel status in Fresno, California, was scheduled to arrive in Denver at U-,

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