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B-214531 1 (1984-08-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadlwg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 0 THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL 0EClUlON OP THE UNITEO UTATIK WASHINGTON, D.C. 20546 FILE: B-214531 DATE: August 24, 1984 MATTER OF: Doris J. Lindstrom DIGEST: A former employee of the Merit Systems Protection Board is not entitled to a retroactive promotion from grade GS-7 to GS-8 on the basis that she interviewed for a GS-8 position. As a general rule a personnel action cannot be made effec- tive retroactively so as to increase an employee's compensation. A former employee of the Merit Systems Protection Board is not entitled to a retroactive promotion and backpaK from grade GS-7 to GS-8 on the grounds that she claims to have been interviewed for a GS-8 position before she transferred to the Board. An employee of the Federal Government is entitled only to the salary of his or her appointed posi- tion, and as a general rule a promotion action may not be made retroactively so as to increase an employee's right to compensation. 1/ FACTS Mrs. Doris J. Lindstrom, then a secretary (stenography), GS-318-7/4, with the General Services Administration, interviewed for a position at the Merit Systems Protection Board in early 1979. Mrs. Lindstrom alleges that the position for which she interviewed was a GS-318-8. However, she was appointed/transferred to a GS-318-7/4 secretary (stenography) position at the Board on April 22, 1979. Mrs. Lindstrom believes that she was given an incorrect SF-50 (Notification of Personnel Action) and job description upon her transfer. While she states that she made several attempts to have this error corrected, no official action was ever taken, and there is no record of a formal complaint by Mrs. Lindstrom during her employment by the Board. On September 16, 1980, she retired from the Federal Service. Mrs. Lindstrom filed a claim for a retroactive promo- tion to grade GS-8 on January 26, 1982, with our Claims 1/ The decision results from the appeal of Mrs. Doris J. Lindstrom from the action of our Claims Group, on claim No. Z-2843944, issued February 23, 1983, which denied her claim for a retroactive promotion.

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