DUAL BENEFITS FOR EMPLOYEES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84B00890R000800100031-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 4, 2003
• Sequence Number: 31
• Publication Date: October 19, 1981
• Content Type: MF

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DDS&T-4791-81
19 October 1981
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Administration
FROM:
_ie ministrative Staff, DDS&T.
SUBJECT: Dual Benefits for Employees
REFERENCE: Travel Policy Committee Memo ADPP 39-81
1. In reviewing the reference proposal, I believe it is
deficient in several key areas. The result may well cause serious
legal, financial and morale problems for the Agency.
The policy statement in paragraph 2 speaks of establish-
ing new entitlements for travel and allowance benefits for two
married, full-time staff employees because of their individual
"staff status." However, the legal opinions written on dual
benefits, and the revised wording of paragraph 3a on Applicability,
state the new policy pertains not just to staff employees, but
to all full-time staff or contract employees. Further, as written,
authorizing and approving officers will have no discretionary
authority in this matter, but shall authorize these benefits except
in the few obvious situations explicitly noted. -
3. Travel benefits and allowances were added over time to
offset or cover needs and financial hardships encountered by
employees in PCS travel. The proposed policy seeks to convert the
basis for the allowances to a right of status divorced from need.
In fact-, the.policy by incorporating the word "shall" goes beyond-
this by making authorization mandatory. For example, on POV
shipment, the authorizing official is directed to authorize "each
employee the shipment of-one POV.." This mandate totally ignores
cost., benefit to the government, the propriety, cover or need by the
employees-for two POV's at a foreign post. Employee morale should
be shaken when it is discovered that two married employees will
automatically get a higher HHE allowance than a family of five or
six. _
4. Another aspect of this proposed policy concerns the
precedent being established which can be used in other areas.
However, at this time the greatest impact will be the across-the-board
coverage being proposed for all types of contract employees. The
OGC opinion, because the dual-benefits policy is based on status
rather than need, is forced to conclude that contract employees have
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SUBJECT: Dual Benefits for Employees
a right to these benefits. OGC 81-06612 finds that any limitation
(of statutory benefits)
would derive not from the employee's status
as contract or staff, but rather from the
nature of that employee's service to the
Agency. the Agency may restrict the
available statutory benefits so long as the
Agency restricts similarly situated employees
in a consistent fashion.
5. If the proposed policy were set in recognition that two,
married, full-time employees may have need by virtue of their
duties overseas to have an additional amount of HHE, air freight,
or second vehicle, etc., then the policy is justified. To be
eligible, both employees would have to be going overseas to fill
existing Agency staff positions. This recognizes that both employees
are overseas in their own right, and not by virtue of one being
there because they were a spouse. Since their official duties,
either in this country or in their overseas post, have justified
the need for an additional allowance, the authorizing official
could then approve the incremental allowances based on need and on
a benefit. to be received by the government. I recommend that the
concept of dual benefits be returned to the Travel Policy Committee
to be recast in terms of meeting employee needs.
cc: Chief, Travel Policy Committee
Deputy Director of Personnel
SSA/DDA
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