[Claims for Time Spent Traveling to Worksites]
Highlights
A union local requested a decision concerning claims for overtime compensation by employees of the Social Security Administration. The claims were for time spent traveling from homes to worksites during a transit strike. The agency hired buses to transport workers from a district office to worksites where the employees were needed. The buses left the district office at the workers' normal starting time, and left the worksites 1 hour before the employees' normal quitting time, arriving at the district office approximately 1 hour after the normal quitting time. The claims were for the latter hour. GAO held that the travel involved was not travel away from the official duty station and that it was travel from home to worksite. Further, GAO held that work was not performed during the travel. Accordingly, the claims for overtime compensation were denied.