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B-176051 1 (1974-07-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadcdk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION . )i OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, D. C. 205 FILE: DATE: July 10, 1974 9 70 B-176051 MATTER OF: Overpayment of environmental differential DIGEST: Prevailit wage errlovees of the Denartment of the :.avy whose nositions incduced built-in environ- mental differentials were downraded one trade to positions in which differentials were not -built-in but were paid under subchhpter S8-7, FPM Supple- ment 532-1. After the Civil Service Commission directed these employees to be restored retroactively to their former nositions because of rrocedural defects in the downerndin-s they are not cntitled to the hirhe: ) grade pay plus differentials of the lower vrade since the FPM SuoLement differentials are not payable to employees whose nay rates included built-in differ- entials raLting their rates one -rade until their grades are properly reduced to eliminate the built-in differentials. This is a request for a decision whether certain vaee board employees of the Denartment of the Navv who have been restored to higher erades as a result of an anneal are liable for reimbursement of environmental differential payments made while the employees were In lower grade positions. It is stated that in late 1970 a number of naval activities were directed to .chan;e to lower grade a large number of Prevailing vage rate employees. This action resulted from the application of the Coordinated Federal Wage System (CFWS) environmental differ- ential pay plan approved by the Civil Service Commission. The new environmental differential Day plan provided payment for exposure to specified environmental conditions by a senarate pay differential Instead of by giving credit for these environmental exDosure factors In the job-grading process. Since the Department of the Navy had heretofore considered these factors in the job-grading process of certain ratings, it was necessary to reevaluate these jobs without consideration of the unusual hazards, physical hardships, and working conditions. This reevaluation resulted in a one-grade reduction in wage grade of all the jobs affected. A laree number of these employees filed appeals and annroximatelv 200 of them have been restored retroactively to their former grade and pay. As a

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