The Office of Personnel Management needs to issue guidance on several changes enacted as part of
various laws last year, with the first order of business likely to be a provision that allows federal
travelers to receive compensatory time off for time spent on official travel outside their normal duty
hours that is not deemed to be paid time. OPM has indicated that the change will be effective at the
earlier of January 28 or the date it issues implementing rules that will specify exactly what time
will qualify. Normal commuting time will not qualify, and the law specifies that employees couldn
