The U.S. Border Patrol, a component within the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), is the federal agency with primary responsibility for securing the border between U.S. ports of entry. Border Patrol was staffed at a level of 20,081 agents as of January 2016. Agents routinely work overtime hours in excess of a standard 8 hour work day. GAO and others previously reported on the inappropriate use of overtime premium pay at DHS, and at Border Patrol in particular. Congress passed the Border Patrol Agent Pay Reform Act of 2014 (BPAPRA), which established a new overtime compensation system for Border Patrol agents. This report transmits, in the form of a congressional briefing, an assessment of CBP's report on how it will implement this overtime pay reform. Tables. This is a print on demand report.

Overtime Pay for Border Patrol Agents (US Office of Personnel Management Regulation) (OPM) (2018 Edition) The Law Library presents the complete text of the Overtime Pay for Border Patrol Agents (US Office of Personnel Management Regulation) (OPM) (2018 Edition). Updated as of May 29, 2018 The Office of Personnel Management is issuing final regulations to implement section 2 of the Border Patrol Agent Pay Reform Act of 2014, as amended, which established a new method of compensating Border Patrol agents for overtime work. Payments under this new provision will become payable beginning with the first pay period beginning in January 2016. These regulations affect only Border Patrol agents in the U.S. Customs and Border Protection component of the Department of Homeland Security. This book contains: - The complete text of the Overtime Pay for Border Patrol Agents (US Office of Personnel Management Regulation) (OPM) (2018 Edition) - A table of contents with the page number of each section

Enacted in December 2014, the Border Patrol Agent Pay Reform Act of 2014 (BPAPRA) established a new overtime compensation system for Border Patrol agents.3 Under BPAPRA, Border Patrol agents individually elect, and are subsequently assigned by the agency to, one of three rates of pay commensurate with the amount of scheduled overtime the agents elect or are assigned to work. To determine the extent to which CBP’s plan ensures Border Patrol agents’ overtime compensation during their control period is consistent with agents’ career average overtime, we reviewed CBP’s plan and compared it with the pay assignment continuity provisions in BPAPRA and OPM regulations. We reviewed additional documentation provided by CBP, including documentation on the identification of agents that entered the control period in January 2016 and the calculations of agents’ career average overtime percentages. We assessed the reliability of the control period data by interviewing agency officials responsible for performing the calculations and testing the data for accuracy and completeness, among other things.

Border security : examining the implications of S. 1691, the Border Patrol Agent Pay Reform Act of 2013 : hearing before the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, second session, June 9, 2014.