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B-212352 1 (1983-12-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadlmc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 0L THE COMPTROLLE R NoAL OEClION OF THE UNITE UTATE WASHINGTON. 0.C. 2054U FILE: B-212352 DATE: December 23, 1983 MATTER OF: Richard W. DuMas DIGEST: Certain employees in Panama are entitled to tropical differential pay if they con- tinuously occupy a position in Panama after discharge from military service. Under agency practice and interpretation of its regulations this requirement was satisfied despite a few days delay after military discharge before civilian employ- ment. Evidently such delay was sometimes administratively unavoidable. However, tropical differential is denied a claimant who delayed his civilian appointment for 22 days to return to the United States for discharge and to transact personal business after military discharge. Because Mr. Richard W. DuMas had a substantial break in service to transact personal business between his discharge from the armed services and his appointment to a civilian position in the former Panama Canal Zone we sustain our Claims Group's denial of his claim for tropical differential pay. (Claim Settlement April 19, 1981.) On August 23, 1979, while still a member of the United States Army stationed in the Panama Canal Zone (now Republic of Panama), Mr. DuMas was selected to fill the position of Sports Specialist as an Army civilian employee in Panama. He requested that his entry on duty in the civilian position be delayed until the Army returned him to the United States for military discharge and until he transacted certain per- sonal business there. After his discharge on September 6, 1979, at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, and after completion of his personal business, he returned to Panama at his own expense where he entered on duty in the civilian position effective September 29, 1979. The regulation covering tropical differential for certain employees within the Panama Canal Employment System provided:

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