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          WASHINGTON, D.C. 2054a


8-187846


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Nbrary 17, 1M


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Roger Rosenwald - Computation of
Backpay Award


Employee was permanently promoted from
GS-14, *te[ 4 to GS-15, step 2, 1 year
after detail to higher graded position.
Under our decision in Turner-Caldwell,
55 Comp. Gen. 539 (1975), employee was
entitled to temporary promotion from
GS-14, step 3, to GS-15, step 1, on
October 11, 1972, 121 days after detail
began. Under 5 C.F.R. 5 550.804(a)
the employee's pay is to be recomputed
as if the unwarranted or unjustified
personnel action had not occurred.
Thus, the employee is entitled only to
the difference between the amrount he
Would have received from October 11,
1972, to October 11, 1975, the date
he finally received correct pay, and
the amount he actually received.


     By a letter dated December 2, 1977, Ms. Donna D.
Beecher, Direptor, Personnel Systems and Payroll
Division, Department of Housing-and 'Urban Development
(HUD), requested our decision concerning the method to be
used in computing the amount of backpay to be paid to
Mr. Roger xosenwald, a former ROD employee.

     The record indicates that effective June 11, 1972,
Mr. Rosenwald was detailed from his position at grade
GS-14, step 3, to a grade GS-15 position. One year later,
on June 10, 1973, Mr. Rorenwald was permanently promoted
to the position to which ise had been detailed. Since
Mr. Rosenwald was paid at the GS-14, step 4 level, at
the time of the permanent promotion, he was promoted to
grade GS-15, step 2.

     In accordance with our decision in Everett Turner and
David L. Caldwell, 55 Comp. Gen. 539 (1975), and Marie
Grant, 55 Comp. Gen. 785 (1976), which were sustaTed upon
reconsideration in 56 Comp. Gen. 427 (1977), Mr. Rosenwald
requested a retroactive temporary promotion effective on the


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