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B-192433 1 (1979-03-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabjmr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: -:, ~COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 B-192433 MAR 13 1979 The Honorable Adlai E. Stevenson United States Senator Suite 3960 Federal Building 230 South Dearborn Street Chicago, Illinois 60604 Dear Senator Stevenson: Further reference is made to your letter of January 26, 1979, on behalf of Mr. Sanford M. Altschul the disallowance of whose claim for backpay for an overlong detail and payment for time charged to leave without pay and absence without leave was sustained in our decision Matter of Sanford M. Altschul, B-192433, December 4, 1978. We have received a letter from Mr. Altschul, dated December 18, 1978, requesting certain documents and information. The materials requested were furnished with our letter of February 13, 1979. A copy of that response is enclosed. In our letter of February 13, 1979, we detailed the distribution of our December 4, 1978, decision. In that letter we also discussed the probative value of the December 15, 1972, memorandum. It appears that the major thrust of Mr. Altschul's complaint about our decision is that he was, in fact, doing work at a higher grade level, and he attempts to substantiate this position through voluminous documentation that he has previously forwarded to us. As was stated in the February 13, 1979, letter to Mr. Altschul, we must accept the validity of agency prepared documents, which show his position to be properly classified at the grade level at which he was appointed and paid. Mr. Altschul is, in effect, asking us to reclassify his position based upon newspaper clippings which allegedly demonstrate that the contracts that he administered were complex enough to warrant a higher grade level classification. Classification of positions is a matter for the employing agency and the Office of Personnel Management under 5 U.S.C. § 5112 and-.when the classification of a position is certified to be appropriate by

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