B-231718: Feb 3, 1989

Civilian Personnel - Compensation - Overtime - Eligibility - Travel time When an employee of the National Park Service is released from temporary duty assignment to return to his home park as soon as possible and be available for fire fighting duty or for backup duty resulting from forest fire emergency. The condition of immediate official necessity occasioned by an administratively uncontrollable...

B-231718: Feb 3, 1989

A National Park Service (NPS) employee claimed overtime compensation for travel on his day off, contending that he had to travel immediately to prepare for an uncontrollable fire emergency. GAO held that the claimant was entitled to the overtime, since NPS requested that the employee return to his official duty station on his day off to prepare for possible immediate dispatch to a fire. Accordingl...