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B-221176 1 (1986-04-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadmhh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER GNERAL DECISION . OP THU UNITO STATES WASHINGTON. 0. C. 20549 FILE:B-221176 DATE: April 24, 1986 MATTER OF: Rufus R. Johnson DIGEST: Where, as the result of a discrimination complaint, an employee is promoted to GS-12 retroactive to a date prior to the date he was awarded a quality step increase in his GS-11 position, amounts attributable to the quality step increase in the lower grade are to be deducted from the pay of the higher grade position to determine the employee's backpay entitlement. Because a quality step increase may not be granted retroactively, the employee may not be granted a quality step increase effective retroactive to a date 1 year after the effective date of his retro- active promotion to GS-12. We have been asked to determine the effect of a quality step increase on the pay entitlement of an Army employee who, as the result of an Equal Employment Opportunity settlement action, was retroactively promoted from GS-11 to GS-12 prior to the date the quality step increase took effect in the lower grade position.1/ Amounts the employee received in his lower grade position, including amounts attributable to the quality step increase, are to be set off against the salary of the employee's higher grade posi- tion in determining the amount of his backpay award and the employee may not be retroactively awarded a quality step increase in the higher grade position. On January 4, 1981, Mr. Rufus R. Johnson, a Supply Officer with an Army activity in Germany, was awarded a quality step increase from GS-11, step 7 to GS-11, step 8. Pursuant to the settlement in January 1983 of his Equal 1/ The request was made by William M. Frailey, Chief, Civilian Personnel Center, Department of the Army, Alexandria, Virginia. cs~6 /i a

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