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B-200929 1 (1981-12-31)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadjzo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: MDECISION THE COMPTR ERGLIENERAL OF THE UNITED TATES V. AS8HI NGrON 1 9, C, 1()54B FILE: 6 D-200929 MATTER OF: DATE5 Lancelot Travel - December 31, 1981 L. Llewelyn - Separation Actual Residence Determination DIGEST: Retired employee of Panama Canal Com- mission was criginally recruited from Kingston, Jt'daica, and employed as con- tract Foreign Labourer with Panaria Canal in 1940. Employee wotked continuously for 39 years, first as contract laborer and then as regular Federal employee. Hfe retired in 1979 and traveled to new resi- dence in California at his own expense. He see;s constructive travel costs that would have been payable under original contcact for repatriation to Kingston. Employce is only entitled to expenses for separation travel to country of actual residence at time of assignment to duty. However, agency should deternine if employ- ee was entitled to negotiate transporta- tion agreement in connection with regular Federal employment and if so, whether actual residence had changed to location in continenta. United States* Mr. Fernando Manfredo, Jr., Acting Administrator, Panama Canal Commission, requests our opinion as to whether Mr. Lancelot L. Llewelyn, a retired Commission employee, may be reimbursed the constructive cost of transportation, shipment of household goods, and travel expenses to Kingston, Jamaica, his actual place of residence at the time of employment. Reimbursement on the constructive basis suggested mtay not be made. How- ever, if the conditions outlined below can be met, some reimbursement may be allowed. Mr. Llewelyn was hired in December 1940 by the Panama Canal, the Federal agency then operating the waterway, as a contract Foreign Labourer. Mr. lewelyn was one of several hundred skilled and unskilled workers who, during the early 1940's were recruited from off the Isthmus of Panama to work tunder contract for the Panama Canal on various construction projects in the Canal Zone. At the

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