The Arbitrator ordered the Agency to pay the grievant all additional overtime and premium pay owed for work performed while on temporary duty in Bosnia. The question presented in this matter was whether danger pay was included in basic pay used to compute overtime. The grievant, a Federal wage system employee, was working in a foreign country, Bosnia, for the entire time frame encompassed by this grievance. The Authority further found that instead, for the purpose of computing the grievant's overtime entitlement, the grievant was subject to OPM's overtime regulations. Under those regulations, an employee's overtime pay is computed based upon the employee's basic pay.
Basic pay includes such additional compensation as night time and environmental differentials.
The Arbitrator held that danger pay is a type of environmental differential that can be considered a part of basic pay.