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FILE; B-204724 DATE; September 13, 1.982
MATTER OF: John J. Kelly
DIGEST:An employee, who was yrantet a quality
step increase while on temporary assign-
ment to a higher grade position and was
awarded backpay by a retroactive tem-
porary promotion for entire period of
such services may retain the step in-
crease. The agency's subsequent action,
cancelling the quality step increase
under an agency regulation relating
to backpay which prohibits the award
of such an increase to an employee
for work while on a temporary assigi.-
ment, does not defeat the award in
this case which was based primarily
on services in his permanerit position.
By letter of September 2, 1981, the Assistant Secre-
tary for Persohnel Administration, Department of Health
and Human Services, requested an advance decision on the
propriety Qf withdrawing a quality step increase previously
awarded to Mr. John J. Kelly, an employee of the Social
Security Administration. The issue in this case is
whether a quality step increase once granted may be with-
drawn when an employee subsequently files a claim for
backpay for an overlong detail and departmental regula-
tions governing backpay state that quality step increases
effected during an overlong detail must be withdrawn.
The answer is that the employee is entitled to the quality
step increase.
Mr. Kelly, a GS-105-12 Social Insurance Specialist,
received a quality step increase in March 1960 for his
job performance for the period from March 1979 through
March 1980. In November 1980 he initiated a claim for
a retroactive temporary promotion to grade GS-13 for the
period January 1 through October 17, 1980, for having
performed the duties of a GS-105-13, Social Insurance
Specialist. On February 26, 1981, i;he agency determined
that he was entitle] to the retroactive promotion for
the entire period of the detail in accordance with a
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