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B-180206 1 (1974-07-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadccx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ~L~~CSIDN -~<,THE COMPTROLLER~ GENF-MAL 'O CSO. THE UNITED sTATES WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548I FILE: B-180206 OATE: JUL 6 1974 4 MATTER OF: Retroactive payment of environmental differential Although agency did not determine that duties performed by certain prevailing rate employees involved a hazard listed in anoendix J of FPM SunPlement 532-1 for wihich environmental differential pay is required until some time after the effective date of the differential, pay- ment may be made from effective date of the differential since assignments before and after determination of enti- tement were similar and since reasonable estimates of the amounts due may be made on the basis of records of actual entitlement for the 5-month period for which records are available. This decision involves the propriety of certifying for payment to certain prevailing rate employees of the Department of the Army retro- active environmental differential pay for the period of November 1, 1970, through August 26, 1972. To ixplement the environmental differential pay plan in accordance with Federal Personnel Manual (FE1I) Letter No. 532-17, August 5, 1970, the Position and Pay unaaemeut Division of the Arty Civilian Peraonnel Office, Hawaii, conducted a survey of the local work situations at Army installations in Hawaii shortly after receiving FA Letter No. 532-17. On the basis of this survey, it was determined that none of the work situations in Havaii met the criteria of section 58-7 of FM Supplement 532-1 for environmental differential pay. However, it was subsequently determined that certain employees working in the Storage Section of the Munitions Division were entitled to environmental differential pay for the hazard listed in appendix J of FPM Supplement 532-1 as Explosives and Incendiary Material-Low Degree Hazard. Accordingly, these employees have received a 4 percent environmental differential since August 1972. Since the initiation of environmental differential pay for these employees on August 26, 1972, was not based on a change in their working conditions but on the reversal of the determination that they were not entitled to an environmental differential, the Department of the Army believes that these employees may be retroactively paid an environmental

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