The Defense Logistics Agency requested a decision concerning the entitlement of three employees to night differential pay for overtime hours they worked between 1977 and 1983. GAO held that: (1) it would not consider the claims concerning time worked before March 1980, since statutory law barred GAO consideration of claims more than 6 years after the first accrual date; (2) filing the claim with a...

THOSE CLAIMS WERE NOT RECEIVED IN THE GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE (GAO) UNTIL MARCH 20. EMPLOYEES WORKING AS PETROLEUM INSPECTORS ARE NOT ENTITLED TO NIGHT DIFFERENTIAL UNDER 5 U.S.C. SINCE THE NATURE OF THEIR WORK IS NOT PREDICTABLE ENOUGH TO ALLOW THE AGENCY TO SCHEDULE THEIR HOURS IN ADVANCE. ET AL. - PREMIUM PAY - NIGHT DIFFERENTIAL PAY CLAIMS: THIS DECISION IS IN RESPONSE TO A REQUEST FROM PETE...