Compensatory Time for Travel

Flashcards based on the Civilian Personnel Directorate lecture regarding rules, waiting times, commuting offsets, and forfeiture of compensatory time for travel.

Compensatory Time Off for Travel

A form of compensatory time earned by an employee for time spent in a travel status away from the employee's official duty station when such time is not otherwise compensable.

January 28, 2005

The date on which the interim regulations for compensatory time off for travel became effective.

Travel Status

Includes time spent traveling between the official and temporary duty stations or between two temporary duty stations, including the usual waiting time preceding or interrupting such travel.

Usual waiting time (Domestic)

The creditable waiting time prior to the scheduled departure of an airplane for domestic travel, which is set at $2$ hours per agency guidelines.

Usual waiting time (International)

The creditable waiting time prior to the scheduled departure of an airplane for international travel, which is set at $3$ hours per agency guidelines.

Extended waiting period

An unusually long wait during which an employee is free to rest, sleep, or use time for their own purposes; this is at the exclusive discretion of the employing agency and is not considered time in a travel status.

Bona fide meal periods

Periods not considered time in a travel status, defined as a minimum of $\frac{1}{2}$ hour for each $8$ hours in a travel status.

Commuting Time Offset

The deduction of an employee's normal home-to-work or work-to-home commuting time from creditable travel time when travel is between a home and a transportation terminal outside the official duty station.

Compensable

Periods of time that are creditable as hours of work for determining specific pay entitlements, such as basic pay or premium pay.

Availability Pay Cap

An example of a compensation limit mentioned in the notes is the $25\times 10^{-2}$ (25\text{\textpercent}) cap on availability pay.

Crediting Increment

Compensatory time off for travel is credited and used in $15$ minute increments.

Documentation Submission Deadline

The requirement for employees to submit an itinerary, TDY orders, local travel voucher, and/or worksheet within $5$ working days of return from travel.

Record Retention Period

Approved documents and forms related to travel compensatory time must be maintained for $6$ years.

CB

The timesheet code used to reflect hours of compensatory time for travel earned and approved.

CF

The timesheet code used on an OPM 71 to document the requested and approved use of compensatory time for travel hours taken.

OPM 71

The specific form used to document the requested and approved use of earned compensatory time for travel hours.

Forfeiture Period

Compensatory time off for travel is forfeited if it is not used within $26$ pay periods after it is credited.

Forfeiture Conditions

Events that trigger the loss of travel compensatory time, including voluntary transfer to another agency, movement to a non-covered position (e.g., SES or WG), or separation from the Federal Government.

Military Leave/LWOP Exception

If an employee enters Military Leave or LWOP during the $26$ pay periods, the waiting time for forfeiture starts over upon their return.

Unused Time Payment Rule

Under no circumstances may an employee receive payment for unused compensatory time off for travel.

Federal Workforce Flexibility Act of 2004

The legislation (Public Law 108-411, October 30, 2004) that authorized Compensatory Time Off for Travel (CTT) under Section 203.