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B-191351 1 (1978-08-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadggl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I 0 gTHE COMPTROLLER DUCISION *' oP THE UNITED t5 .P ; WASHINGTON. D. -Nh DATE: Auucst 7, FILLT: B-191351 GENERAL STATE /4 C. 2O548 1'J[8 MATTER2 OF: Robert L. Morton - Periodic step-increase DIGEST, 1. The rules governing waiting periods for step increases on resumption of former grade and step fnllowing a temporary promotion are not for applicaticn where an employee is demoted under an adverse action from a permanent promotion position and returned to his former grade and step in which he performed satisfactorily. 2. Where an increase in pay on promotion con- stitiAes an equivalent increase under 5 U.S. C. 5335(a)(3)(A) and Subchapter S4-8(b), of FPM 990-1, the effeczive date of puchpromo- tioliwould be the inception date for a new waiting period, aid the fact that employee was demoted and ieturned to his former grade and step woul.d not negate the promotion date as the incoption date of that new waiting period for a periodic stop-increase in the lower grade. This action is in response to a letter dated February 16, 1978, reference 953, from Ms. Josephine Manzanares, Authorized Certi- tying Officer, Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior, requesting an advance de'cision concerning the waiting period for L within-grade increase and the proper timing for the granting of suh increase in the case of Mr. Robert L. Morton, a former Bureau of Reclamation employee who transferred to the Department of Energy, effective October 1, 1977. The submission states that'tn September 92, 1974, the employee was granted a within-grade increase from the eighth to the ninth step of grade CS-11, in his position as power area dispatcher, 301 series. Under normal circumstatices, his next within-grade increase would not have been due until September 25,, 1977, to satisfy Vie thrc:e-year waiting period reqdirement contained in 5 U. S. C. L335(a)(3). However, on November 9, 1975, the employee was pro- moted to grade OS-12 as Chief, Fort Peck Area Dispatching Field Branch, in the same series, with his salary set at the fifth step of that grade. I~ I . . - . , . . . . I L I- *1 0 C' -I '4 It .1 I I a

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