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[Decision Concerning Compensation for Naval Employees Who Crossed International Dateline]

B-223047 Jun 08, 1987
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The Navy requested a decision concerning the appropriate pay for seven employees who worked an extra day due to crossing the international dateline. The employees contended that the Navy did not pay them properly because they crossed the international dateline in the westward direction on a weekend. GAO held that the Navy: (1) determined that all but one employee lost a workday when traveling westward across the dateline and properly compensated them for 8 hours of basic pay and 2 overtime hours for the lost workday; and (2) incorrectly failed to compensate the seventh employee, who lost a nonworkday in his travel west and gained a workday traveling east. Accordingly, the Navy should pay the seventh employee 10 hours of overtime for the nonworkday he lost.

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