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                          THU  COMPTuOL LAW U#lUAAL
gECUSgON .,or THE UNITED UTATEa
                SWASHINCTON, D.C. *054U


PILtE B-189673


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DATE:       xuary 23, 178


CP: Thomau Davis - Claim for Retroactive
      Promotion and Backpay

 I4 Employee of NA&& roansigned from a
    poeltion as warehouseman to that of
    boiler operator under a Merit Pro-
    motion Plan, with an iz1formal
    agreement that he would be considered
    for promotion to higher grade levels
    after 8, 18, and 30 moutha under the
    plan, did not acquire a vested right to
    be promoted at those Intervals and is
    not entitled to retroactive promotions
    due to delays in promotion actions,
    since the graninZg of promotioni from
    griade to grade is a discretionary
    matter primarily within the provirce
    of the agency involved.

2.  Oecis'ons 55 Cohp. Gen. 539 (1975) and
    56 Coinp. Gen. 427 (1977), concerning
    the protr.otion of employees an offial
    temporary details to higher grade posi-
    tiona, have no application to a claim
    for retroactive promotion by an employee
    who was not officially detailed to higher
    grade position.


     This action is in respboe to correspondence received from
-.Mr. Thomas  Davis, 6211 Belgrade Drive, Huntsville, Alabama, which
  constitates an appeal of settlement Z-2492315 dated April 27, 1977,
  issued by our Claima Division, disallowing his claim for retroactive
  promotions to higher grade ppsitions from and after November 1971,
  and for packpay, incident to hds employment with the National
  Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

     On May 17, 1970, while eimployed at the George C. Marshall Space
 Flight CenLter, Huntsville. Alabama, Mr. Davis was reassigned under
 a Merit Proiiotion Plan from the positi&; of Warehouseman Forklift
 Oprator,  WB'-5402-5 -step 3, to that uf Operating Engineer. Steam,
 Helper, WB-5402-5  .tep 3. NASA auithorities report that at the time
 of this reassignment, in which Mr. Drvia undertook new duties as a
 boiler operator, an informal agreement was made that he would be


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