§ 301-75.4 - What other responsibilities do we have for pre-employment interview travel?

§ 301-75.4 What other responsibilities do we have for pre-employment interview travel?

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Link to an amendment published at 89 FR 12253, Feb. 16, 2024.

You must:

(a) Provide your interviewees with a list of FEMA approved accommodations in the vicinity of the interview, and encourage them to stay in an approved accommodation;

(b) Inform the interviewee that he/she the interviewee is responsible for excess cost and any additional expenses that he/she incurs they incur for personal preference or convenience;

(c) Inform the interviewee that the Government will not pay for excess costs resulting from circuitous routes, delays, or luxury accommodations or services unnecessary or unjustified in the performance of official business;

(d) Assist the interviewee in preparing the travel claim;

(e) Provide the interviewee with instructions on how to submit the claim; and

(f) Inform the interviewee that he/she the interviewee may subject himself/herself themselves to criminal penalties if he or she they knowingly presents present a false, fictitious, or fraudulent travel claim (See 18 U.S.C. 287 and 1001).

[FTR Amdt. 70, 63 FR 15980, Apr. 1, 1998; 63 FR 35538, June 30, 1998, as amended by FTR Amdt. 2007-05, 72 FR 61540, Oct. 31, 2007; FTR Case 2022-05, 89 FR 12253, Feb. 16, 2024]