While the measure applies only to the TSA, the same issue can apply at other large federal facilities such as DoD bases requiring substantial time in transit internally. Image: Kits Pix/Shutterstock.com
By: FEDweek StaffThe House has passed HR-862, to require the TSA to study the feasibility of treating as on-duty hours the time TSA employees working at airport locations spend traveling between their duty locations and parking lots or public transit stops.
The bill passed without hearings or an explanatory report, but in passing a similar bill last year—which the Senate did not take up—the report said that many airports where screeners, Federal Air Marshals and other TSA employees work are so large that they might spend upwards of 45 minutes from entering airport grounds to arriving at their duty station.
The study would have to address the in-facility transit time needed at facilities of different sizes; whether employees could use their mobile phones, location data, or other means to report their arrival and departure; and the estimated cost of treating that time as on duty time, including considering the time as basic pay for retirement purposes.
While the measure applies only to the TSA, the same issue can apply at other large federal facilities such as DoD bases requiring substantial time in transit internally.
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