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B-178139 1 (1973-06-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaaczg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AD , -COMrTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES 'V WASH IHOTONSCO, MIN B-i78139 June 18, 1973 Ir, Jack Walker, Vice President Amrican Federation of Government Employees Social SecuriLty Local No. 1395 165 H. Canal Street • Chicago, Illinois 60606 Dear Hr. eWalk rs Reference is made to your letter of February 13, 1973, on behalf of thres employees of the Social Security Administration, Bureau of Retirement and Survivor* Insurance, Cl l Authorization Branch, Chicago, lini c, oncerning theirIclaisa for additional pay incident to the failure of the agency concerned to procas promtionu for thee ims diately upon :ompletion of one yar's Sorico, According to your letter, these eqloyaeu entered on duty with the (+ Social Security Administratirn on August 23, 1970, as Claims Authorizer Trainees, grade GS-7, and were to receive career-promotion to grade M,-9 ftet satisfactorily coplting one year of service. You contenl that since these employecs copletod one year of atisfactory service on August 22, 1971, their prootio to 03-9 should have been process*d and made effective August 23, 1971. You qustion the action of the Department in dolaying such promotions until September 5v, 1971p, the next gufl pay period following the completiou of one full year. We note that the employees concerned were not procmoted until October 17, 1971, and that their l for retroactive p9y from September 5, 1971, to October 17, 1971, were disalloved by settluents of the Transpora- • tion and Claims Divisim of this Office datr- t)ezeber 18, 1972. It was adnistratively reported in-connetion with the considera- tion of the prior clai of these employees that the promtions in qtestion were delayed.pursuant to a Department of Health, Education, ad Welfare (1H?) policy to maintain personnel wattaers In status quo for a temporary period. Such policy included the placement of a hold on promotion actions, ncluding promotlions to career ladder positions, aud the suspension of hiring except iu special cases. TI%. reason for that policy was to allow tite to assess the impact on uhE ot' the Presi- dent's diretivee requiriug each executive departumt cad agency to

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