- 9 - reimbursements for travel expenses pursuant to the personal service contracts. Petitioner was paid an annual salary of $67,162 ($32.18 per hour calculated on a work year of 2,087 hours) under the first service contract and $69,631 ($33.36 per hour calculated on a work year of 2,087 hours) under the second contract. Petitioner’s salary was comparable to that of a Government employee classified as GS-13, step 7, including the locality pay differential for the Washington, D.C. area, during the contract periods. Petitioner received base rate increases at the same time and in the same proportion that regular State Department employees received their wage scale increases during the contract periods. Petitioner was eligible to earn overtime for hours worked in excess of 40 hours per week and could earn compensatory time in lieu of overtime. Petitioner was required to obtain approval by the COR in advance of working overtime and/or taking compensatory time. Petitioner was entitled to paid leave for official Federal holidays. If she worked on a Federal holiday, she was entitled to payment for overtime, or she could accrue compensatory time. Petitioner accrued 4 hours of annual leave and 4 hours of sick leave each pay period during the contract periods. Unused annual and sick leave from the first contract period wasPage: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Next
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