stone_crazy
03-29-2008, 12:50 AM
Looks like you will be getting post allowance.
Many nonappropriated fund “local hire” employees living overseas soon will be getting extra cash in their paychecks thanks to a ruling handed down last week by the Defense Department. And some could see even more money in the form of back payments.
On March 21, Michael L. Dominguez, the principal deputy secretary of Defense for personnel and readiness, directed the Defense Department’s nonappropriated fund, or NAF, employers to pay post allowance to all eligible employees not currently receiving the benefit....
A DOD regulation that went into effect in 1995 said “all eligible U.S. Citizens receive Post Allowance unless they are part-time, intermittent, or U.S. family member summer/winter hire employees,” Lt. Col. Les’ Melnyk, a Defense Department spokesman, wrote in an e-mail.
But of the DOD’s six major NAF employers, only the Army paid the allowance to Americans it hired overseas for full-time NAF positions. The Army and Air Force Exchange Service — the DOD’s largest NAF employer — along with the Navy Exchange Service Command; Commander, Navy Installations Command; Air Force Morale, Welfare and Recreation; and the U.S. Marine Corps haven’t been paying the allowance.
http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=53652
You can even receive back pay as far back as 2001. I think that part is BS because the policy was in effect since 1995. So now, we are made to suffer because our employer didn't abide by this policy? Well, at least something is better than nothing.
Many nonappropriated fund “local hire” employees living overseas soon will be getting extra cash in their paychecks thanks to a ruling handed down last week by the Defense Department. And some could see even more money in the form of back payments.
On March 21, Michael L. Dominguez, the principal deputy secretary of Defense for personnel and readiness, directed the Defense Department’s nonappropriated fund, or NAF, employers to pay post allowance to all eligible employees not currently receiving the benefit....
A DOD regulation that went into effect in 1995 said “all eligible U.S. Citizens receive Post Allowance unless they are part-time, intermittent, or U.S. family member summer/winter hire employees,” Lt. Col. Les’ Melnyk, a Defense Department spokesman, wrote in an e-mail.
But of the DOD’s six major NAF employers, only the Army paid the allowance to Americans it hired overseas for full-time NAF positions. The Army and Air Force Exchange Service — the DOD’s largest NAF employer — along with the Navy Exchange Service Command; Commander, Navy Installations Command; Air Force Morale, Welfare and Recreation; and the U.S. Marine Corps haven’t been paying the allowance.
http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=53652
You can even receive back pay as far back as 2001. I think that part is BS because the policy was in effect since 1995. So now, we are made to suffer because our employer didn't abide by this policy? Well, at least something is better than nothing.