U.S. Customs Service's Abuse of Overtime Compensation: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Oversight of the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session, June 13, 1991, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1991 - 151 pages |
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16 hours Accounting Office actually additional airports amended ANTHONY Budget called back cargo Chairman PICKLE chart COBRA Commissioner Committee CONGRESS THE LIBRARY Customs Inspectors customs officers Customs overtime Customs Service inspectors DODGE duty earn Employees Pay Act enacted extra compensation February 13 Federal Employees Pay FEPA fiscal FRAUDULENT TRADE funds GAO report going Government HALLETT hourly rate hours of pay Ibid increase inspectional overtime J.J. PICKLE JENKINS Kwas lading or unlading law enforcement LIBRA LIBRARY OF CONGRESS look managing overtime million minutes night overtime assignments overtime compensation overtime costs overtime hours overtime pay overtime rates overtime services paid passengers payment percent period ports premium pay private sector question RANGEL recommendations regular reimbursement schedule SHAW shift staff statute Subcommittee Sundays and holidays Sundays or holidays task force Thank tickets tion trade Treasury U.S. Congress U.S. Customs Service user fee vessel weekday WINWOOD
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Page 16 - ... antemeridian, or on Sundays or holidays, to perform services in connection with the lading or unlading of cargo, or the lading of cargo or merchandise for transportation in bond or for exportation in bond or for exportation with benefit of drawback, or in connection with the receiving or delivery of cargo on or from the wharf, or in connection with the unlading, receiving, or examination of passengers...
Page 17 - States from a foreign port by water, land, or air, such rates to be fixed on a basis of one-half day's additional pay for each two hours or fraction thereof of at least one hour that the overtime extends beyond five o'clock postmeridian (but not to exceed two and onehalf days...
Page 33 - Mexico, the collector, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, shall assign customs officers and employees to duty at such times during the twenty-four hours of each day, including Sundays and holidays, as the Secretary of the Treasury in his discretion may determine to be necessary to facilitate the inspection and passage of such merchandise, baggage, or persons. Officers and employees assigned to such duty at night or on Sunday or a holiday shall be paid compensation...
Page 15 - ... hereby authorized to administer the oath or affirmation herein provided for, and such boarding officers shall be allowed extra compensation for services in boarding vessels at night or on Sundays or holidays at the rates prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury as herein provided, the said extra compensation to be paid by the master, owner, agent, or consignee of such vessel...
Page 19 - Before any such special license to unlade shall be granted, the master, owner, or agent, of such vessel or vehicle shall be required to give a bond in the penal sum to be fixed by the collector conditioned to indemnify the United States for any loss or liability which might occur or be occasioned by reason of the granting of such special license and to pay the compensation and expenses of the customs officers and employees...
Page 15 - The said extra compensation shall be paid by the master, owner, agent, or consignee of such vessel or other conveyance whenever such special license or permit for Immediate lading or unlading or for lading or unlading at night or on Sundays or holidays shall be granted to the collector of customs, who shall pay the same to the several customs officers and employees entitled thereto according to the rates fixed therefor by the Secretary of the Treasury.
Page 33 - Mexico, nor to the lading or unlading of merchandise, baggage, or persons arriving In or departing from the United States by motor vehicle, trolley car, on foot, or by other means of highway travel upon, over, or through any highway, bridge, tunnel, or ferry. At ports of entry and customs stations where any merchandise, baggage, or persons shall arrive In or depart from the United States...
Page 17 - In those ports where customary working hours are other than those hereinabove mentioned, the collector of customs is vested with authority to regulate the hours of customs employees so as to agree with prevailing workIng hours In said ports, but nothing contained in this section shall be construed in any manner to affect or alter the length of a working day for customs employees or the overtime pay herein fixed.
Page 19 - In lieu of such bond the owner, or agent, of any vessel or vehicle or line of vessels or vehicles may execute a bond in a penal sum to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury to cover and include the issuance of special licenses for the unlading of vessels or vehicles belonging to such line for a period of one year from the date thereof.
Page 33 - ... paid by the United States without requiring any license, bond, obligation, financial undertaking, or payment In connection therewith on the part of any owner, operator, or agent of any such highway vehicle, bridge, tunnel, or ferry, or other person. As used In this section, the term 'ferry' shall mean a passenger service operated with the use of vessels which arrive In the United States on regular schedules at Intervals of at least once each hour during any period In which customs service Is...