AUO Eligibility to Widen

Agencies would be allowed to pay “administratively uncontrollable overtime” pay to an employee during a temporary assignment that otherwise would not warrant such a payment if the assignment is directly related to a national emergency declared by the president, under proposed rules published in the February 13 Federal Register by the Office of Personnel Management. AUO pay is a form of premium pay for employees in positions, primarily involving law enforcement, in which the hours of duty cannot be controlled administratively and which require substantial amounts of irregular or occasional overtime work. The rules would allow payments in those situations of up to 30 consecutive days and up to 90 days in a calendar year.