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B-198590 1 (1981-08-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadjrl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. 0. C. 20548 L'ITS FILE: B-198590 DATE: Aug-ust 26, .1981 MATTER OF: Grand Coulee Project Office - Temporary Employees - Construction or Operation and Maintenance Pay Rates DIGEST: 1. Where an arbitrator has requested that the parties in dispute seek the Comptroller General's opinion as to the legality of a labor-management agreement provision, the Comptroller General will issue a decision to the parties on their request. 4 C.F.R. § 22.7(b) (1981). 2. Negotiated labor-management agreement pro- vision, which is protected by savings provision of section 9(b) of Pub. L. 92-392, .August 19, 1972, provides for payment of construction rates of pay to specified tempo- rary employees of Grand Coulee Project Office. The arbitrator found that as of September 1979 the payment of construction rates of pay to temporary employees was not a pre- vailing practice in the area. Since section 704 of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, Pub. L. 95-454, October 13, 1978, requires that agreement provisions pro- tected by section 9(b) shall be negotiated in accordance with prevailing rates and practices, we conclude that these tempo- rary employees may not continue to be paid at construction rates of pay. This decision is issued pursuant to a joint request from the Columbia Basin Trades Council and the United States Water and Power Resources Service (formerly Bureau of Reclamation), Department of the Interior. The issue presented is whether the Service's Grand Coulee Project Office may pay construction rates of pay, rather than operation and maintenance rates, to temporary blue collar employees in the occupations listed in the negotiated labor-management agreement. We decide, for the reasons stated below, that these temporary employees of the Grand Coulee Project Office may not continue to be paid at construction rates of pay.

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