OVERTIME COMPENSATION POLICY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01826R000800080027-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 4, 2000
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: November 24, 1958
• Content Type: MF

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24 November 1958
MEMORANDUM FOR: Chairman, Career Council
SUBJECT: Overtime Canpensation Policy
1. The General Counsel is of the opinion that the Agency is not
exempt from Title II (Compensation for Overtime) and Title III (Compen-
sation for Night and Holiday Work) of the Federal Employees Pay Act of
1945. Title II provides that Federal Employees repaired to work in
excess of 40 hours a week will be compensated. It provides for methods
and rates of overtime compensation and places a definite limit on such
compensation at the maximum scheduled basic rate of compensation provided
for GS-15.
2. The 1954 amendment to Title II permits the employer (the DCI) at
his own discretion to provide that an employee earning in excess of the
maximum for grade GS-9 shall be compensated for overtime with an equal
amount of compensatory time off. Employees earning the maximum for grade
G5-9 or less have the undeniable option of choosing between overtime pay
and compensatory time off.
3. The 1954 act adds a Title TV authorizing additional annual pay
at rates up to 25 per cent of base pay rates in lieu of all overtime,
night and holiday pay for employees performing standby duty and having
longer than ordinary periods of duty. It also authorizes additional
annual pay at rates up to 15 per cent of base pay rates in lieu of other
pay for irregular or un&cheduled overtime duty and for night and holiday
duty for employees whose hours of duty cannot be controlled administra-
tively and who are required to perform substantial amounts of irregular
overtime and night and holiday duty with the employee generally being
responsible for recognizing, without supervision, circumstances which
require him to remain on duty. Employees in this latter category would
receive overtime compensation for regularly scheduled overtime work .
officially ordered or approved. Both provisions of Title ry have appli-
cation to certain categories of Agency employees.
4. Within the framework of these statutes it should be possible to
establish a simple, feasible Agency policy for overtime compensation.
The following is offered for consideration:
a. Agency employees officially ordered or approved to work in
excess of 40 hours a week will be compensated therefor sdbject to the
06-15 pay limitation.
b. All employees below the grade of GS-10 have the option to
choose to receive overtime pay or compensatory time off.
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SUBJECT: Overtime Compensation Policy
c. All employees in grade 08-10 and above will be compensated
for overtime work by receiving compensatory time off.
d. Selected categories of employees required to perform duties
meeting the requirements for premium pay under Title PT will be
granted such pay so long as they are assigned such duties.
5. The policy outlined above follows substantially the same pattern
recommended previously by the Inspector General in his memorandum to the
DCI dated 3 March 1958 with the exception of the premium pay provision.
This policy together with the already established provisions for night
and holiday pay will cover equitably all of the conditions met in
Headquarters and the Field.
6. The control of overtime is a command responsibility the burden
of which must be assumed by supervisors at all levels. It cannot be
controlled successfully by the establishment of complex formulas or
administrative contrivances.
7. It is
Recommended that:
The Career Council adopt the foregoing statements contained
in paragraph 4 above as the Agency's policy on overtime
compensation.
Is/
Lyman B. Kirkpatrick
Inspector General
cc: All members of Career Council
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