# 2019-024 Pay and Benefits, Canadian Forces Temporary Duty Travel Instruction, Class A Reserve Service

Case summary

F&R Date: 2019-07-25

The grievor, a Class “B” reservist, challenged his chief of staff's decision to deny him previously approved travel benefits for his travel between his current workplace and his former unit, at which he voluntarily paraded. As redress, the grievor requested that the previously authorized claims be processed.

The Initial Authority denied the grievance on the basis that the grievor's voluntary service did not meet the definition of temporary duty (TD) status provided in the Canadian Forces Temporary Duty Travel Instruction (CFTDTI).

The Committee noted that both the CFTDTI and Canadian Forces Military Personnel Instruction 20/04 - Administrative Policy of Class “A,” Class “B” and Class “C” Reserve Service, define TD as including travel to and from the place of TD; and, that the CFTDTI provides that an approving authority must authorize duty travel in advance. As the commanding officers of both the grievor's home and former unit had approved his voluntarily parading with the former unit and his travel plan, the Committee found they had effectively approved his TD status. Accordingly, the Committee found that the grievor was on TD status during the times he voluntarily paraded with his former unit, and was therefore entitled to travel expenses. The Committee recommended that the Final Authority afford the grievor redress by recognizing that he was on TD for the days he paraded with his former unit and reimburse his travel expenses for those days.