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B-170675 1 (1979-08-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadjay0001 and id is 1 raw text is: IO . THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, D. C. 20548 FILE, B-170675 DATE Augst 8 1979 MATTER OF: Ralph Y, Nail et al. - Promotion FroomWage Board to General Schedule Position DIGEST: Employees who were promoted from wage board to General Schedule positions are entitled to have night differen- tial included in wage board rate of pay for purpose of determining highest previous rate upon transfer to General Schedule position. See Terry Ray Ashbaugh, B-189852, February 14, 1979. This decision is rendered in response to a Consent Order of DL-( 0 Remand issued by the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta, Division, dated May 10, 1979, in con- nection with pending litigation in Ralph G. Nail, v. United States, CA No. C77-1497A, and related cases. The court's order remands the case to our Office for a decision authorizing the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to recompute the plantiffs' pay rates in the General Schedule positions to which they were promoted on the basis of highest previous rates determined by their wage board rates of pay, including night differential. Although the parties to the litigation are agreeable to judicial settlement of the four cases before the District Court, the Consent Order of Remand reflects the concern that the FAA will be unable to administratively settle similar claims in the absence of a specific ruling in the matter. The practice of the FAA in promoting wage board employees to the General Schedule has been to exclude any night differential from the rate of basic pay in the wage board position in determining the appro- priate rate of pay in the General Schedule position. However, we have held in Terry Ray Ashbaugh, B-189852, February 14, 1979, that the applicable regulations contemplate that night differential be included as part of the rate of basic pay of a wage board employee for the pur- pose of determining his highest previous rate upon transfer to a General Schedule position. See also B-175430, June 1, 1972, and December 19, 1973. Consistent with those decisions, the FAA may ad- ministratively settle claims not barred by the statute of limitations on the basis of a straight rate comparision under 5 CFR 531.201, et seq., of the employee's wage board rate of pay, including night differential, with the rate of basic pay in the General Schedule. For The Comptrolle4 eyieral of the Unitd/'States

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