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B-196392(RJH) 1 (1979-11-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabjgh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I I L- h ,A ~ COMF'TOLLCR GENERAL OF THE UIEIT D BTATnFS WASHItGTOH D.C. 22346 In reply refer to U-196392 (RJ1) November 1, 1979 It ,f I The Honorable James H. lknley Chairman, Commictee on Post Office and Civil Secvice House of Representatives Dear Hr. Chiirman; 'Iv,' K 1. -4', 44 We rrfer to your letter of October 3, 1979, enclosing a coj'y of a letter from Clifford A. White, Program Director, American Forces RAdio and Television Service (AFRTS), Berlin, The letter expreasrs concern with a scheduled conversion of employees from a nonappropriated fund status to a General Schedule status, and the ef.i.ect such conversion will have on their salaries and annual and. sJck leave. In this connection you ask us if any steps can be ta.en to ensure that the employees will not lose accumulated benofits as a result of the conversion. By way of background, the House Committee on Appropriations, in its consideration of the 1979 Department of Defense Appro- priration Bill, recommended that AFRTS be retained as an appropriated fund activity. U..R Rep, No. 95-1398, 95th Cong., 2d Seas. 219. Later, to encourage the Department of the Army to tiarminate nonappropriated funding support for the AFRTS operations, the House Committee reconnended a reduction of $1,000,000 in the J.980 budget be applied against the Operation and Maintenance Army Account. The Committee went on to state that if the employees were couverted from a nonapprpriated fund status to an appropriated fund status in the near future, it would be willing to entertain a reprogramming or supplemental request to restore the $1,000,000. I.R. Rep. No. 96-450t 96th Cong., 1st Sess. 83. Thus, the Department of the Army action is a direct result of the Committee action. The letter from Hr. White indicates that the loss of employee benefits is based on a decision of the Comptroller General, which will require legislative action to set: aside. This is not entirely accurate since legislation to afford relief to the employees involved is necessary because of the w rather than the interprewtaon of the law in the decision referred to, 37 Comp. Gen. 671 (3958). In the cited decision it was held j)D :' Al 4 S 7Y ? 6 '07 61 ) I q07

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