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B-197591 1 (1980-02-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobactyq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: lgL UIkA ---C C, 2~ /Z.4,trEOr GAOI United States General Accounting 0office O fIico M Washington, DC 20M8 Genera! Counsel in Rep% Refer to: 1-1.97591 FFu 1. 5 1980 C)', ~ Mrs. Senora II. Leaks 1865 Shirlone Drive Florissant , Mi souri 63031 ~f!~ ~ t ? p.4'i 0. Donr Mrs, Leks: We rc for to your Irttor dated January 18, '180, wit.h enclosures, conccrning your not being auth'iried overtime work on Saturday January 5, 1980, in connect ion wi th your cmploymenit as an Archive's Technic Ian wl tI the General. Services Adsinistrati on. Al though an official decision is not. heing r enriered i.( arc providing the fol lowing in formation. Genrally the authorization of overtime hours b:lf work is purely disc reti onary wi th an agency as there Is no statutory p royi ;lon which requircs that on employee receive overtime assiginments. However,-In Sonme instances -n agency may hAve cntLred into a labor-managcmcnt. an:retmcnt. which contains provi sins conccrning ctiLl nmeti to over Lime worki assigninents. The Comptroller General has held that whtre an employee has becen deprived of oior time work iii violatilon of a labor** ;naagcvicnt agrecient, the employei: Ia entitied to backpny under the Back PNy Act, 5 U.S.C. 559(o, for the overti.e compensiation he would have otherwlso received but for the agency's viol:tfion of the agreement. See 54 Coop. Gen. 107i (1975), and 55 id. 171 (1975), copies enclosed. We' truis t thtL. the aove Information ul11 crve the purpose of yo-'r inquI.ry. Sincerely yours, a E dw In J. Mon smn Assistant General Counsel Enc I osures I I _______ a 0 nri w te~ 1, I I 4 '5 I 45, *.* fe.. t. ~I, sp I A I I i