At Last, Some Relief for DOE Contractors | PNWC’s Government Contracting Update

For the past few years, the Department of Energy (DOE) has taken an extremely literal approach to contractors claiming overtime for employee training purposes. FAR 31.205-44(a) , Training and Education Costs, states that overtime compensation for training and education is unallowable. DOE has taken the position that there can be no exceptions to this rule. It didn’t matter whether a contractor could show that it was more cost effective to pay overtime for training than to hire additional staff to cover contract-required services. It didn’t matter that certain training was specifically mandated by contract and not discretionary. It didn’t matter that the training contributed significantly to contractor employee health and safety. Contractors had to find a way to do all of this without incurring overtime.

Source: PNWC’s Government Contracting Update: At Last, Some Relief for DOE Contractors