Protest Involving Disallowance of Claim

An employee of the Internal Revenue Service appealed the disallowance of his claim for overtime compensation incident to the delay in his return travel to his official duty station. Upon completion of the assignment, the employee's scheduled return to his official duty station was delayed by a snowstorm which interrupted commercial air travel. There was no basis to pay overtime compensation for the time the employee waited in town for air service to resume. Hours of employment for which overtime is payable do not include all time in travel status but only actual travel time plus the usual waiting time which interrupts travel. The mere resolution of an employee to his place of duty, where the employee is neither performing work nor holding himself in readiness to perform work, does not entitle such employee to overtime compensation. Therefore, the employee's waiting time in the town where he performed his assignment was not compensable as hours of work. Accordingly, the prior settlement denying the claim was sustained.