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B-184237 1 (1975-11-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadcrk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, D. C. 20548 NOV 28 1975 FILE: B-18423DATE: MATTER OF: Jack S. Groff - Status as Government employee DIGEST: Where Government record of personnel action indicates employee was appointed by duly authorized Government official, officer is presumed to properly dis- charge official duty and record of'ap- pointment is official Government record and presumption of regularity attaches so that absent clear evidence of error, employee may be presumed to have been properly appointed to position in com- pliance with law then in effect. This case arises upon the request of Mr. Robert E. Hampton, Chairman of the Civil Service Commission, who seeks an advance decision as to the status of Mr. Jack S. Groff for service credit, retirement contributions, pay rate, and leave accrual. Mr. Groff was competitively selected under local merit promotion procedures on August 15, 1974, for a position as Computer Technician, GS-335-09, with the Military Traffic Management Command, Depart- ment of the Army (MTMC). It appears that Mr. Groff was employed by the Central IntelligenceAgency (CIA) until June, 1967, at which time he trans- ferred to the Post Office Department (now Postal Service) as a Computer Operator, Postal Field Service (PFS)-9. Thereafter, in November 1967, he was promoted to PFS-10. Also, Mr. Groff has served as a Computer Technician, GS-335-8, in the employ of the Drug Enforcement Administration. At the time the present appointment was made, a question arose whether Mr. Groff had theretofore been selected from a competitive register. As Mr. Hampton explained in his letter to this Office, *** * when Mr. Groff was selected as a Com- puter Operator, PFS-9, the Civil Service Commission had not yet taken over the examining function for such positions. The Postal Service has no record of the kind of examining procedures it was using to

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