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B-198149(DAS) 1 (1980-04-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobactyi0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I ( GAO73Lr United States General Accounting Office Office of Washington, DC 20548 General Counsel IRepy1B-108149 (fitS) April 11, 1980 Colonel David B, German, USAF? DPSC - AP Headquarters, Defense Personnel Support Center, OLA 2800 South 20th Street Philadelphia, PA 19101 Dear Col. Germann: We refer to your letter duted March 10, 1980, concerning the request of Ms. Jessie A. Davis for a retroactive promotion from December 23, 1979, to January 20, 1080. She was a GS-07 contract specialist and was recommended for promotion along with a co-worker on December 6, 1979, However, the supervisor failed to sign one document necessary for her promotion and, as a result, her co-wvorker was promoted two pay periods before Ms. Davis. The supervisor agrees that she should have been promoted earlier and that the mistake was not her fault. The following information is provided in lieu of a formal decision. Our office has issued decisions in situations similar to the one you describe. In one case an employee's career ladder promotion was delayed because the original promotion request was lost in the mail. The employee took the case to arbitration and the arbitrator ruled in favor of the employee. However, we ruled that the agency could not implement the arbitration award because the origin4l promotion request was lost prior to its approval by the authortzed official and the delay in processing the promotion did not support a retroactive promotion. Janice Levy, B-190408, December 21; 1977 (copy enclosed). The general rule, in cases involving approval of promotions, is that it is necessary that the official having delegated authority to approve the promotion has done so. Thus, a distinction is drawn between errors that occur prior to approval of the promotion by the properly authorized official and those that occur after such approval but before the acts necessary to effective promotion have been fully carried out. The rationale for this distinction is that the individual ~~ThhhbI

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