Interest Payment  |  Payments/Reimbursements  |  Regulation  |  Travel Status
Union Negotiation/Representation  |  Miscellaneous

1. No interest will be charged for delinquent repayment of travel advances. NFFE, Local 29, 10 FLRA 550 [N]
2. Agency prohibited from collecting late payment charges from employees advanced monies in excess of expenses actually incurred when repayment becomes delinquent. NFFE, Local 1363, Republic of Korea, 10 FLRA 560 [N]
3. Agency to pay interest on travel and per diem payments disbursed more than 15 days after the travel voucher is submitted. NFFE, Local 29, 13 FLRA 23 [NN]
4. Prohibiting the agencies from charging interest on delinquent unused travel advances. NFFE, Local 29, 21 FLRA 101 [NN]

Payments/Reimbursements

1. Not making assignments which would oblige an employee to incur or suffer dual lodging expenses in excess of the $50 per day unless there is an operating need to do so. NLRB Union, 3 FLRA 508 [N]
2. Requiring mileage payment from residence to duty station other than employee’s headquarters. AFGE, Meat Graders Council, AFL–CIO, 8 FLRA 118, Proposal VI [N]
3. Reimbursement of commuting expenses incurred by employees who choose to commute rather than move closer to the installation’s new location. NTEU, 9 FLRA 726 [NN]
4. Lifting an agency regulatory sixty day restriction on lodging and per diem allowances for employees assigned duty in a Corporation office. AFGE, Local 3488, 12 FLRA 532, Proposal 4 [N]
5. Employees who travel outside normal duties hours to and from a site will be paid for their travel time. NTEU and NTEU Chapter 208, 13 FLRA 60, Proposal 1 [N]
6. Residences of certain employees to be considered their duty stations for the purpose of computing travel expenses. AFGE, AFL–CIO, Local 3483, 13 FLRA 446, Proposal 1 [NN]
7. Management to pay for moves of employees initiated at the employees’ requests and for the employees' convenience. International Organization of Masters, Mates and Pilots, 13 FLRA 508, Proposal 6 [NN]
8. Agency to reimburse employees for mileage expenses consistent with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation regulations that requires the agency to grant employee reimbursement under the Lodgings–Plus formula of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation regulations. NTEU, Chapter 207, 14 FLRA 598, Proposal 4 [N]
9. Agency to pay travel and per diem costs to employees taking Certified Public Accountant examinations. AFGE, AFL–CIO, Local 3529, 15 FLRA 403 [NN]
10. Agency to pay employees the full amount of subsistence allowed by travel regulations regardless of reasonable cost. NFFE, Local 29, 20 FLRA 543 [NN]
11. Agency to pay the travel expenses incurred by employees while using official time available under the terms of the agreement. NTEU, 21 FLRA 6 [N]
12. Providing employees who commute from their residences $8.00 plus mileage and other expenses when they are out over 10 hours. AFGE, AFL–CIO, Local 3804, 21 FLRA 870, Proposal 7 [N]
13. Agency to pay travel expenses for employees transferred to a different duty station as the result of a reduction in force until the employees elect to move their families. NAGE, Local R14–87, 21 FLRA 905, Proposal 1 [NN]
14. Prohibiting the agency from making any changes to existing practices regarding the advance payment of travel allowances. IFPTE, Local 12, 24 FLRA 178 [N]. Rescinded and dismissed in IFPTE, Local 12, 26 FLRA 854.
15. Agency will use the Runzheimer Meal–Lodging Cost Index rather than the joint travel regulations to determine the reasonableness of claims for meal expenditures. Federal Union of Scientists and Engineers, NAGE, 26 FLRA 284 [NN]
16. Prohibiting the agency from making any changes to existing practices regarding the advance payment of travel allowances. IFPTE, Local 12, 26 FLRA 854 [NN]
17. Agency to reimburse employees for travel in private or commercial vehicles in the performance of assigned duties. OEA, 27 FLRA 492, Proposal 13 [N]
18. Providing transportation and housing at the government's expense for employees attending union sponsored meetings and workshops regarding labor–management relations. OEA, 27 FLRA 492, Proposal 14 [N]
19. Providing for military transportation at government expense for an employee’s return to his duty station after medical evacuation. OEA, 27 FLRA 492, Proposal 15 [N]
20. Enabling employees eligible for Renewal Agreement Travel to receive travel advances. OEA, 27 FLRA 492, Proposal 19 [NN]
21. Employees commuting from their residences to their duty stations using a government-owned vehicle entitled to travel expenses and these expenses should be borne by the agency. National Council of Field Labor Locals, Local 2513, AFGE, 29 FLRA 451 [NN]
22. Employees traveling to high cost areas shall receive 100% travel advance. AFGE, AFL–CIO, Council of Prison Locals 1661, 29 FLRA 990, Proposal 29 [NN]
23. Seeking the payment of travel and per diem expenses, in accordance with Federal Travel Regulations for members of the Union Negotiating Committee while on official time. NTEU, 31 FLRA 856 [N]
24. Allowing employees to get 80% travel advances rather than be required to use charge cards. NAGE, Local R12–40 and Federal Union of Scientists and Engineers, Local R12–198, 36 FLRA 168, Proposal 2 [NN]
25. Per diem rate to be paid employees who do not incur lodging costs but who stay with relatives or friends. NTEU, 39 FLRA 848, Provision 2 [N]
26. Requiring the agency to give employees the option of using a Government credit card or receiving an 80 percent travel advance. NFFE, Local 284, 43 FLRA 74 [NN]
27. Requiring the agency to give travel advances to employees who choose not to use a Government credit card and providing that the Government will be the owner of the credit card and be billed for all charges. IFPTE, Local 25, 43 FLRA 374 [NN]

Regulation

1. Agency to adopt the Department of State travel regulations. Maritime Metal Trades Council, 17 FLRA 890, Proposal 3 [NN]
2. Agency to do everything it can, including seeking a legislative change, to adopt the Department of State travel regulations. Maritime Metal Trades Council, 17 FLRA 890, Proposal 4 [NN]
3. Agency to negotiate over any and all changes in travel regulations. AFGE, AFL–CIO, Local 3804, 21 FLRA 870, Proposal 11 [N]
4. Limiting when a change in agency regulation that governs space available travel will be applied. Overseas Education Association, 29 FLRA 628, Proposal 3b [N]

Travel Status

1. Dealing with the designation of duty stations for the purpose of determining the travel status of bank examiners. AFGE, AFL–CIO, Local 3805, 5 FLRA 693 [NN]
2. Limiting travel away from the normal duty station to 35 calendar days except for training or unless the employee volunteers for a longer period. AFGE, AFL–CIO, National Immigration & Naturalization Service Council, 8 FLRA 347, Proposal 13 [NN]
3. Restricting employee travel to regular duty hours. AFGE, Local 3488, 12 FLRA 532, Proposal 8 [NN]
4. Placing employees in per diem status during travel outside normal duties hours to and from a site. NTEU and NTEU Chapter 208, 13 FLRA 60, Proposal 2 [N]
5. Official time for any travel over one hour when an employee is on a commuting assignment. AFGE, AFL-CIO, Local 3483, 13 FLRA 446, Proposal 2 [NN]
6. Agency to grant employees on detail away from their duty stations time during their regularly scheduled work time to travel to and from home for the weekend. AFGE, AFL–CIO, Local 3424, 14 FLRA 79, Proposal 2 [NN]
7. Compensatory time for travel to and from temporary duty locations outside normal work hours. NFFE, Local 1445, 16 FLRA 1094, Provision 1 [NN]
8. Agency to allow employees assigned away from their duty stations three hours travel time during their work days to travel to and from their homes. AFGE, AFL–CIO, Local 3424, 17 FLRA 362 [NN]
9. Agency to allow employees on temporary duty assignments to Puerto Rico or the Virgin Islands to travel to and from their homes on duty time every other Friday and Monday. AFGE, AFL–CIO, Local 3488, 17 FLRA 538, Proposal 1 [NN]
10. Agency to schedule travel during regular duty hours and/or duty days. AFGE, AFL-CIO, Local 1770, 17 FLRA 752, Proposal 5 [NN]
11. Permitting employees an unlimited amount of travel time to return to their residences on Friday from temporary assignments outside their normal commuting areas and, on Monday, to return to those assignments, if they had not been completed. AFGE, AFL–CIO, Local 3804, 21 FLRA 870, Proposal 5 [NN]
12. Travel be arranged within an employee’s scheduled hours of work “when practicable.” AFGE, Local 1799, AFL–CIO, 26 FLRA 926, Provision 2 [N]
13. Agency to authorize travel to a unit employee’s current place of residence on home leave unless authorization is prohibited by statute or a Government-wide regulation. OEA, 29 FLRA 734, Proposal 63 [N]
14. Concerning employee use of the General Service Administration's “city pairs” program for travel conduct while engaged in labor–management activities. NTEU, 30 FLRA 690, Proposal 1 [NN]
15. Agency:  1) to record the reasons for ordering mission–accomplishing travel during an employee’s non–duty hours, and if requested to provide those reasons to the employee affected; and 2) to schedule employee travel during the employee’s regular work hours when the event causing the travel is within the agency’s control. IFPTE, Local 15, AFL–CIO, 33 FLRA 187 [NN]

Union Negotiation/Representation

1. Agency to pay the travel expenses of employees using official time under the agreement. NTEU, 9 FLRA 629, Proposal 1 [N]
2. Travel and per diem for employees on official time while engaged in impact bargaining and while bargaining supplemental agreements. NTEU, 9 FLRA 983 [N]
3. Payment of travel and per diem expenses for union negotiators who are receiving official time. NTEU, 21 FLRA 97 [N]
4. Agency to pay travel expenses for union representatives who are on official time for representational duties. AFGE, AFL–CIO, National Council of Federal Grain Inspection Locals, 21 FLRA 112, Provision 1 [N]
5. Providing for travel and per diem costs for witnesses at arbitration hearings. AFGE, AFL–CIO, National Council of Federal Grain Inspection Locals, 21 FLRA 112, Provision 2 [N]
6. Travel and per diem for union representatives to prepare counter proposals and perform other related duties during negotiations. AFGE, AFL–CIO, National EPA Council, 21 FLRA 635, Proposal 1 [N]
7. Agency to pay employee negotiators travel and per diem. NTEU, 21 FLRA 1101 [N]
8. Management will pay travel and per diem to union officials engaged in basic negotiations, I&I bargaining, mid–term bargaining, impasse proceedings and Federal Labor Relations Authority proceedings. NFFE, 21 FLRA 1105, Provision 3 [N]
9. Agency to provide union representatives and staff who are bargaining unit employees with travel orders for the purpose of conducting representational duties. OEA, Inc., 22 FLRA 351, Proposal 10 [N]
10. Agency to issue travel orders and give access to facilities and services on a reimbursable basis to union representatives who are not employees. OEA, Inc., 22 FLRA 351, Proposals 11 and 12 [NN]
11. Agency to honor the letter and intent of the alleged current collective bargaining agreement provisions concerning payment of travel and per diem expenses for representatives until a new agreement is reached. NAAE, 22 FLRA 451, Proposal 2 [NN]
12. Agency to pay the travel and per diem expenses of employees engaged in various representational activities. NLRB, 22 FLRA 486 [NN]
13. Stating that the travel is in the primary interest of the government. NLRB Union, 22 FLRA 522 [N]
14. Travel and per diem payments for union negotiators. NTEU, 22 FLRA 1068 [N]
15. Travel and per diem for employee representatives. National Joint Council of Food Inspection Locals, AFGE, AFL–CIO, 23 FLRA 10 [N]
16. Travel and per diem for representational activities. AFGE, AFL–CIO, 23 FLRA 160, Proposal 3 [N]
17. Negotiations over travel and per diem for negotiations and other activities directly related to negotiations. NAAE, 24 FLRA 121 [N]
18. Travel and per diem expenses to attend labor-management relations committee meetings and arbitration hearings. NTEU, 25 FLRA 1067, Proposal 2 [N]
19. Travel and per diem expenses for union negotiators using official time. NTEU, 26 FLRA 589 [NN]
20. Agency to pay travel and per diem to all union officials for any purpose for which official time is allowed. NTEU, 28 FLRA 1052 [N]
21. Requiring per diem for grievance and arbitration proceedings requiring travel of more than 15 miles. AFGE, AFL–CIO, Local 1458, 29 FLRA 3, Provision 16 [NN]
22. Seeking the payment of travel expense and per diem for certain union representative attending meeting of the joint labor–management committee. AFGE, AFL–CIO, National Council of VA Locals, 29 FLRA 515, Proposal 2 [N]
23. Concerning the payment of travel and per diem to union representatives for attendance at meetings held on official time during the instructional day. OEA, Inc., 29 FLRA 734, Proposal 1 [N]
24. Authorizing travel and per diem for union representatives negotiating proposed changes in personnel policies, practices and working conditions during the instructional day. OEA, Inc., 29 FLRA 734, Proposal 2 [N]
25. Employer to pay travel and per diem for all union negotiators. NTEU, 29 FLRA 1288 [N]
26. Travel and per diem for various types of negotiations. NTEU, 31 FLRA 181, Proposals 5, 6, and 7 [N]
27. Concerning travel and per diem costs for union representatives. NTEU, 42 FLRA 964, Provision 2 [N]

Miscellaneous

1. Exempting unit employees from a requirement that they register their privately owned vehicles. NFFE, Local 1363, 4 FLRA 68 [N]
2. Guarantee that transferred employees will suffer no financial loss due to increased commuting transportation cost. AFGE, AFL–CIO, Council 235, 9 FLRA 825, Proposal 3 [NN]
3. When civilian technicians are traveling they are assigned quarters based on their civilian grade rather than their military grade. NFFE, Local 1669, 13 FLRA 176, Proposal 2 [NN]
4. Employees may take home leave to travel on commercial flights rather than on aircraft chartered by management. International Organization of Masters, Mates and Pilots, 13 FLRA 508, Proposal 9 [N]
5. Allowing travel by circuitous route. OEA, Inc., 27 FLRA 492, Proposal 18 [N]
6. Allowing employees to travel to their homes in the United States at reduced rates on commercial airlines and military flights during summers when they are not eligible for Renewal Agreement Travel. OEA, Inc., 27 FLRA 492, Proposal 21 [N]
7. Authorizing space-available travel on military aircraft for employees upon retirement. OEA, Inc., 27 FLRA 492, Proposal 22 [NN]
8. Employees can select their lodging while on official travel except under certain circumstances. NTEU, 46 FLRA 696, Provision 29 [N]
9. Establishing a Liaison and Familiarization Travel program for Air Traffic Assistants. NAGE, Local R3–10, 53 FLRA 139 [N]. Reversed and remanded in Federal Aviation Administration, Washington, D.C. v. Federal Labor Relations Authority, 145 F.3d 1425 (D.C. Cir. 1998). On remand, NAGE, Local R3–10, 55 FLRA 839 [NN, GWR]