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[Request for Reconsideration of Claim for Holiday Premium Pay]

B-202626 Sep 04, 1984
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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) requested reconsideration of a decision in which GAO held that an FAA employee was entitled to 8 hours of holiday premium pay even though his 8-hour shift covered portions of 2 calendar days, one of which was not a holiday. GAO had allowed his claim for holiday premium pay for 1 hour, modifying prior GAO decisions. FAA maintained that the hour which he claimed at holiday pay rates should be considered overtime because the employee had already been paid for 8 hours of work and leave on that day, and work in excess of 8 hours in a day is overtime. In addition, an Executive order provides that an employee is entitled to pay at the rate equal to the rate of his basic pay for holiday work which is not overtime. GAO found that, since the full 8-hour tour of duty covered portions of 2 calendar days which were designated by FAA as being his holiday for pay and leave purposes, the Executive order permits the designation of all of the tour of duty as occurring during the employee's holiday. Accordingly, the prior decision was affirmed.

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