DEWAYNE ADAMS BRIAN ALSBAUGH DAVID BROTHERS JEREMY BUCHANAN GEORGE BULLOCK WILLIAM CLARE DENNIS COCHRAN KEVIN COTTER JONATHAN DIGUGLIELMO SCOTT DOMBO MICHELANGELO DOTIMAS KEVIN DZIEGIEL REYES FIGUEROA OWEN HAMMETT TODD HILL KYLE JAEGER WAYNE JANES ROGER KAMMERDEINER II JEFFREY KEYSER ADAM LINDER RICKEY MILLER CHARLES NEWSOME RICARDO PHANG TRAVIS PIRKL SEAN PATRICK CONROY CHRISTOPHER COOPER TOM DE ARMOND REYNALDO GARCIA ERIC HOOKS KENNETH JEWELL TIMOTHY KEENER STEVEN KOSCIUSKO JOHN KRAWIEC RAYMOND LONG MICHAEL LORKIEWICZ JEFFREY PATTON MICHAEL REYNOLDS JOHN SANTOS STEVEN SHAMON LOREN SHARP CONSTANTINE SIDERIS ANDREW TURCOTTE HECTOR VEGA MYRON WADE LARRY WARLITNER STEVEN WILLIAMS JOHN WILLS KRISTIN WILSON DONALD WISNIEWSKI JOEL WOOD v. UNITED STATES (2017)

Plaintiffs-Appellants, Dewayne F. Adams et al. (col-lectively, “Appellants”), appeal from the order of the United States Court of Federal Claims (“Claims Court”) granting the government's partial motion to dismiss pursuant to Court of Federal Claims Rule 12(b)(1) for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. For the reasons set forth in the thorough and well-reasoned opinion of the Claims Court, we affirm.

Appellants are current and former employees of the United States Secret Service. Adams v. United States, 125 Fed. Cl. 608, 609 (2016). They alleged that, as a result of new practices, the government denied them the two consecutive days off from work to which they were statutorily entitled under 5 U.S.C. § 6101(a)(3)(B).¹ The Claims Court concluded that it was without jurisdiction because this provision is not “money-mandating.”

On appeal, Appellants first argue that § 6101(a)(3)(B)'s scheduling mandate constitutes a money mandate because it entitles employees to work, and thus receive compensation for such work. The Claims Court concluded that this subsection is not money-mandating because it only concerns work scheduling practices and does not address employees' entitlement to pay. Id. at 611. We agree with the Claims Court. “At most,” the court properly concluded, § 6101(a)(3)(B) entitles employees to “have their basic 40-hour workweek scheduled in a particular fashion ․ But whether Plaintiffs' basic 40-hour workweek is Monday through Friday with Saturday and Sunday off, or Monday through Saturday with Wednesday and Sunday off, does not—in and of itself—affect employees' statutory entitlement to pay.” Id. There is “no statutory entitlement,” the court continued, “to be paid [a] regular salary on a day [employees] do not work (such as on a mid-week flex day). Nor do they have any statutory entitlement to receive overtime pay for Saturday if they do not put in overtime hours on Saturday.” Id. at 612.

Appellants also argue that, even if § 6101(a)(3)(B) alone does not mandate the payment of money damages, the Back Pay Act establishes a money mandate with respect to their § 6101 claim. As the Claims Court cor-rectly explained, we “ha[ve] made clear, [u]nless some other provision of law commands payment of money to the employee for the unjustified or unwarranted personnel action, the Back Pay Act is inapplicable.” Id. (internal quotation marks omitted) (quoting Spagnola v. Stockman, 732 F.2d 908, 912 (Fed. Cir. 1984)). Because § 6101(a)(3)(B) does not “ ‘command[ ] payment of money to the employee,’ ” nor is it “reasonably amenable to the reading that it mandates a right to money damages,” violations of the subsection do not implicate the remedies prescribed in the Back Pay Act. Id. at 613. “Thus,” the court properly concluded, “the Back Pay Act cannot sup-ply this Court with jurisdiction.” Id.

In sum, for the reasons it articulated, the Claims Court lacked jurisdiction and properly granted the government's partial motion to dismiss.

AFFIRMED

FOOTNOTES

1.   The Claims Court, in its opinion, discussed both §§ 6101(a)(3)(A) and (a)(3)(B). Adams, 125 Fed. Cl. at 611. On appeal, however, Appellants argue only that § 6101(a)(3)(B) is money-mandating.

PROST, Chief Judge.