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B-228711 1 (1988-12-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadnic0001 and id is 1 raw text is: cThe Comptroller General of the United States Wahington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of Edward M. Wirth - Retroactive Personnel Action File: B-228711 Date: December 8, 1988 DIGEST An individual in the IRS Student Trainee Program was delayed 4 months in his promotion to a grade GS-7 position. The delay occurred when he was discovered to be ineligible for noncompetitive conversion to the target position upon com- pletion of his bachelors degree because he was appointed under temporary appointment authority rather than from a competitive civil service register. His appointment may not be made retroactive since he was not deprived of a right granted by statute or regulation nor was there a failure to carry out nondiscretionary administrative policies or regulations. DECISION This decision is in response to a joint request from Chapter 304 of the National Treasury Employees' Union (NTEU) and the Pittsburgh District Office of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), for our determination as to whether Mr. Edward M. Wirth is entitled to retroactive advancement to a grade GS-7 revenue agent position. For the reasons stated below, we hold that he is not so entitled. BACKGROUND Mr. Wirth was hired by the IRS Pittsburgh District Office on June 6, 1983, to fill a career-conditional position in the Accounting Student Trainee Series, GS-599. The Pittsburgh office had requested a Student Trainee (Accounting) register from the Philadelphia Area Office of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), but since such a register had not been established, the Philadelphia office issued Temporary Appointment Pending Establishment of Register (TAPER) C d- 4 3 ) -j !3 i--)V

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