[Request for Decision Concerning Entitlement of FAA Employees to Overtime Pay]

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and a union requested a decision regarding overtime compensation for FAA employees who were scheduled to work 5 8-hour days weekly but regularly worked 4 10-hour days weekly and used compensatory time for the remaining day. GAO held that: (1) for a portion of the period in question, some of the employees were participating in a flexible-work-schedule experiment; (2) FAA informally extended the scheduling experiment rather than regularly scheduling overtime work; and (3) the employees were entitled to compensatory time, which they took, but not to additional overtime compensation. Accordingly, the employees were not entitled to overtime compensation.