GENERAL: NPIC PHOTOGRAPHIC LABORATORY BRANCH SPECIFIC: INVESTIGATION AT NPIC ON PAYMENT OF NIGHT DIFFERENTIAL

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• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: September 9, 1966
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9 September 1966
SUBJECT: General: NPIC Photographic Laboratory Branch
Specific: Investigation at NPIC on Payment of Night
Differential
25X1 1. I interviewed Publications
Services Division, NPIC, on 22 August 196777. This was a lead-in
interview to inquiries in the Photo Lab and followed an inter-
25X1 view with
volunteered the comment
that it looked as if they were "in trouble" on payment of night
differential and that he was reviewing the division's policies.
2. I devoted the entire day of 3 September to a review
of night differential policies and practices in Publications
Services Division, with particular reference to the Photo Lab
25XP5X1 Branch. I interviewed who is Q secre-
tary and is the keeper of time and attendance records for the
division. I also interviewed who is
25X125X1 and is the officer who gives /her instructions on main-
taining the T&!'s. I also reviewed the time and attendance
records for all employees of the Photo Lab Branch covering the
period 2 January through 27 August 1966. Night differential
M policies, as stated byl and as confirmed by
are listed below. My comments on the applications of the policies
are based on my review of the time and attendance records.
Policy Only employees regularly assigned to the night shift are
paid night differential.
Comment: This statement is supported by the time and at-
tendance records. I find no case in which a day-shift
employee was paid night differential, regardless of the
hours he worked.
Policy: Night differential is paid only for the "regular" work
nights, Monday through Friday.
Comment: This statement is supported by the time and at-
tendance records. There are instances in which the night
shift worked on Saturday or Sunday nights, or both, but they
received no night differential. In each instance, the em-
ployee had already put in his basic workweek of 40 hours and
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the weekend work was on overtime. Under the provisions rf
night differential could not be paid in con-
junction with overtime because the overtime was not being
worked on ('another regularly scheduled shift."
Policy: Six hours of night differential is paid to night-shift
employees regardless of whether the shift starts at 1600 or 2000
hours.
Comment: This statement is supported by the time and at-
tendance records. The resignees I lomplained
that they had received only four hours of night differential
when they worked the 12-hour shift beginning at 2000 hours.
They are wrong. When they worked a 12-hour shift beginning
at 2000 hours, and when the shift fell during the regular
Monday-through-Friday workweek, they received six hours of
night differential (2000 to 0200 hours). Further comment:
NPIC's policy on this point is contrary to Agency regula-
tions. When the night shift works from 2000 to 0800 hours
during the regular Monday-through-Friday workweek, employees
should receive eight hours of night differential (from 2000
until 01+00 hours). Since they are on overtime hours from
o4oo until 0800, they cannot, by Agency regulation, also be
paid night differential.
Policy: No night differential is paid while in leave status, regard-
less of duration.
Comment: NPIC's policy on this point is contrary to Agency
regulations. specifies that "Night differential
is payable . . . for periods of leave with pay of less than
eight hours during any biweekly pay period. It is not pay-
able for any period of leave if the aggregate of paid leave
during the same biweekly pay period is eight hours or more
. . . . . " Thus, if the employee takes less than eight hours
of leave during the pay period, he should be paid night
differential for the hours he is on leave. On the other hand,
if he takes eight or more hours of leave during the pay period,
he receives no night differential for am of the hours he is on
leave.
Further comment: does not
consistently adhere to the stated policy. I find only five
instances of a night shift employee taking less than eight
hours of leave during a given pay period. In three instances
night differential was not paid for the hours in leave status;
in two instances it was paid.
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took four hours of sick leave on 20 May.
He took no other leave during the pay period. He did
not receive night differential pay for the four hours in
leave status.
took five hours of sick leave on 20 June
and was charged with no other leave during the pay period.
He did not receive night differential pay for the five
hours in :Leave status.
took three hours of annual leave on 3 June
and was charged with no other leave during the pay period.
He did not receive night differential pay for the three
hours in leave status.
stook a total of seven hours of annual leave
during the pay period 2-15 January, five of which were
during the night differential hours. He received night
differential pay for the hours in leave status.
not fall during the hours when night differential is paid;
however, makes no distinction between leave
taken during night differential and non-night differential
hours.
took two hours of annual leave on 20 April.
He received night differential pay for the hours in leave
status. It should be noted that the hours of leave did
PoliL : Day-shift personnel working regularly scheduled overtime
hours into the night shift hours do not receive night differential
pay.
Comment: This statement is supported by the time and at-
tendance records. However, the policy is contrary to Agency
regulations. In recent weeks, certain day-shift employees
have been designated in advance to work four hours of over-
time into the night shift for one week at a time. Two hours
of this overtime falls within the night differential hours,
and they should receive night differential pay in conjunction
with overtime pay.
3. I also interviewed I
to see if NPIC had any internal regulations on
night differential. He informed me that it had none. NPIC follows
as NPIO understands it and as NPIC thinks it is inter-
preted by the Agency. Specifically: An employee who works over-
time into another shift is paid night differential only if he is
replacing and working the shift of another employee. He said that
he had recently had a discussion with
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Payroll Branch, on the subject of night differential and was
quite sure that NPIC's policies were in accord with those fol-
lowed, elsewhere in the Agency.
1.. It is evident from the above that NPIC's policies on
payment of night differential, at least as observed with respect
to the Photo Lab Branch, are not wholly in accordance with
policies established in Agency regulation It is
also evident that payment for night differential while in leave
status is not consistently made in accordance with established
policies in Publications Services Division. The money involved
does not amount to much. For example, who lost
three hours of night differential pay for three hours of annual
leave taken on 3 June was out probably no more than $1.35. How-
ever, the sum involved is of less importance than is the principle
of the thing. Failure to pay night differential due is merely one
of dozens of irritants in the Photo Lab, but it is one that can
be readily eliminated.
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