When are criminal investigators who receive availability pay precluded from earning compensatory time off for travel?
A. Compensatory time off for travel is earned only for hours that are not otherwise compensable. The term “compensable” is defined in 5 CFR 550.1403 to include any hours of a type that are creditable under other compensation provisions, even if there are compensation caps that limit the payment of premium pay for those hours (e.g., the 25 percent cap on availability pay and the biweekly premium pay cap). For availability pay recipients, this means that hours of travel are not creditable as time in a travel status for compensatory time off purposes if the hours are (1) compensated by basic pay, (2) regularly scheduled overtime hours creditable under 5 U.S.C. 5542, or (3) “unscheduled duty hours” as described in 5 CFR 550.182(a), (c), and (d).
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