Francis M. Fix v. The United States

DAVIS, Judge.

This is a sequel to Byrnes v. United States, 330 F.2d 986, 163 Ct.Cl. 167 (1963, 1964). There we held, in general, that some 60 investigators in the Omaha and San Francisco regions of the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Division of the Internal Revenue Service were entitled to be paid for their irregular, unscheduled overtime work before July 1, 1955, at the rate of time-and-one-half (under the Federal Employees Pay Act of 1945), and for such work after that date under the 15 per cent premium compensation formula provided by the 1954 Amendments to the 1945 Act. 1 In the proceedings under…