Am I entitled to overtime when I travel on a day off to attend training to be held the following week away from my duty station?
In this instance an employee was being required to travel on a Sunday to attend a professional training meeting that is being conducted on Monday. This meeting is sponsored and scheduled by a private organization. The National Weather Service has no control of the time and date the meeting is to be held. Under these circumstances, an employee is not entitled to overtime or compensatory time for the days on which you travel. As a professional meteorologist, this employee is exempt from coverage of the Fair Labor Standards Act. Overtime entitlement is therefore governed by Title 5, § 5542 of the U.S. Code. (generally referred to as “Title 5” overtime). Under § 5542(b)(2), time spent in travel status is not compensable hours of work unless it (a) occurs during your regularly scheduled duty hours; or (b) you perform work while traveling or (c) travel is to or from an event that could not be “scheduled or controlled administratively,” that is to say, by the NWS. Consequently, the Comptrolle
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