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B-194447 1 (1979-08-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadhmb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DECISION FILE: B-194447 MATTER DIGEST:, O0LLCR c, o ATHE COMPTROLLER GENERAL * OF THE UNITED STATES /TWASHINGTOND.C.2054B DATE: August 7, 1979 OF: William H. Buchenhorst -fTavel expenses 014 p erroneous transfer U' Civil Service Commission restored employee to position at old duty station because defective reduction-in- force procedures had led to employee's transfer to new duty station. But Commission's action did not convert new duty station from permanent to temporary status. Consequently, employee is not entitled to travel expenses at new duty station. . This decision responds to the appeal of Mr. William H. P Buchenhorst, who as an employee of the General Services Administra- tion (GSA) claims travel expenses because of an unjustified change of his permanent duty station. The claim was denied by our Claims Division's Settlement Certificate No. Z-2773305, May 1, 1978. The issue is whether Mr. Buchenhorst is entitled to travel expenses for work at the(permanent duty station to which) according to the Civil Service Commission,(he had been improperly transferred because of his agency's failure to follow reduction-i -force (RIF) procedurs C--- v1im&.-A Mr. Buchenhorst's position of Personnel Management Specialist at GSA's Region 3 office in the Philadephia, Pennsylvania, area was abolished, and Mr. Buchenhorst was notified on November 4, 1976, that he would be subject to a RIF effective December 7, 1976. The reason given was the reorganization of Region 3's Personnel Division and transfer of a part of its function to Washington, D.C. Because of the RIF he accepted an offer of a transfer to Washington, D.C., as a Employee Relations Specialist, effective December 7, 1976. He reported for duty in Washington, D.C., on January 5, 1977. He main- tained his family residence in Mickleton, New Jersey, while working in Washington, and he frequently commuted to Mickleton fromWashington. On August 11, 1977, he was restored to his former position in Phila- delphia retroactive to December 7, 1976, because the Civil Service Commission determined that Region 3 had failed to follow transfer of function procedvres in connection with the RIF. There is no doubt that GSA intended that Washington, D.C., be Mr. Buchenhorst's new permanent duty station at the time of his F'I IN - / a4l; ILI? 0

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