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B-193391 1 (1978-12-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadgtv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DECISION FILE: B-193391 THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL . .OF THE UNITED STATES WASH INGTON, O.C. 20548 DATE: December 27, 197:8 MATTER OF: George Ziecina - Retroactive Promotion 5ialowanc.- odfe A-oir - [Ore 7tve rooc7o7 'kvi Where, because of the press of other work, an employee's supervisor, fails td submit the employee's promotion recommendation for a career-ladder promotion, in time to permit the employee's promotion on the earliest eligibility date, the promotion may not be made retroactive to that date, absent a non- discretionary agency policy, regulation, or collective-bargaining agreement provision requiring that career-ladder promotions be so effective. This decision is in response to a request for reconsideration, submitted on behalf of Mr. George Ziecina, of our Claims Division Settlement Certificate Z-2787990, August 22, 1978, which denied Mr. Ziecina's claim for retroactive readjustment of his promotion date. Mr. Ziecina was employed as a grade GS-5 Claims Representative Trainee, a career-ladder position, in the Ambridge, Pennsylvania District Office of the Social Security Administration. He was eligible in all respects for promotion to grade GS-7 of his career ladder, on September 11, 1977. His supervisor, the District Manager failed to submit the Request for Personnel Action (SF 52) until September 23, 1977. Thus, Mr. Ziecina's promotion to grade GS-7 was not effective until September 25, 1977, 2 weeks after his minimum eligibility date. The only explanation offered by the District Manager for his failure to submit the promotion recommendation earlier was that he was involved in so many other activities that he was unable to properly oversee the functions of the office. Mr. Ziecina submitted a claim for a retroactive adjustment of his promotion date to the earliest possible eligibility date, September 11, 1977. He states that he had met all eligibility requirements, that he had been assured that his promotion would be processed on time, and that the error here is an administrative error within the meaning of the applicable Comptroller General's decisions authorizing retroactive promotion. DIGEST:

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