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B-193892 1 (1979-11-14)

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                             THE   COMPTROLLER GENERAL
 DECISION                    OF   THE UNITED sTATES
                             WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548
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FILE:   B-193892                    DATE:November  14, 1979

MATTER OF:      Harry D. Carlson - Claim for backpay


DIGEST:         Employee claiming backpay for overlong detail
                may not be paid where record fails to support
                contention that employee was actually detailed
                to higher graded position and lower grade clas-
                sification of position occupied by him was sus-
                tained by Civil Service Commission on appeal.

     This action is in response to an appeal by Mr. Harry D. Carlson
from our Claims Division's settlement certificate of November 24,
1978, by which his n1aim for retroactive temporary promotion and
backpay was denied.

     Mr. Carlson, an employee at the U.S. Army Armament Research
and Development Command, Picatinny Arsenal, Dover, New Jersey, claims
that he is entitled to a retroactive temporary promotion and backpay
from June 25, 1971, to March 19, 1977. On June 24, 1971, while
Mr. Carlson was employed as a Supervisory Management Technician,
GS-11, the Civilian Personnel Office apparently issued a form DD
95 which purported to establish Job No. 14638-S, a GS-12 Administrative
Officer position. The position announcement was posted with a closing
date of August 10, 1971. Mr. Carlson applied for that position but
his SF 52 was disapproved and returned on October 27, 1971.

     Mr. Carlson states that Job No. 14638-S was based on his duties
and responsibilities in the Nuclear Development and Engineering
Directorate (NDED) and that he was continually detailed to those
GS-12 duties and responsibilities until he was reassigned through
a reduction in force effective March 20, 1977. Mr. Carison based
his claim for backpay on this alleged detail in accordance with
Reconsideration of Turner-Caldwell, 56 Comp. Gen. 427 (1977) in which
the Comptroller General affirmed earlier determinations that employees
detailed to higher graded position for more than 120 days without
prior Civil Service Commission (CSC) approval are entitled to retroactive
temporary promotion if certain conditions are met.

     During the time period Mr. Carlson claims he was detailed to
Job No. 14638-S, the record shows that he was reassigned to the
position of Administrative Officer, GS-11, Job No. 14638.1-S,
effective July 23, 1972. Effective June 22, 1975, while the title,


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