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B-246498 1 (1992-06-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadobx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ComptroUlr General of the United States Wjlangton, fl,O, 20548 Decision Matter of: Robert A. Hutson - Merit Pay Increase rile: B-246499 Date: June 12, 1992 DIGEST Within 90 days of the effective date of a merit increase under the Performance Management and Recognition System (PMRS) an employee in a temporary PMRS position was returned on one day to a non-PMRS pay position so that on the next day he could be placed in a permanent PMRS position, The return to, the non-PMRS position was administratively necessary only tO effect a change in the employee's status from temporary to permanent; he, in effect, served continuously in PMRS positions and did not have a change in pay during the 90-day period before the merit increase. Therefore, he may receive the merit increase to which he otherwise would be entitled, DECISION .0 Mr, Robert A. Husun, an employee of the Federal Aviation Ad,,inistration (FAA), appeals our Cl ims Group's - settlement' 'denying his claim for a '1,678 merit pay increase under the Performance Management and Recogni'aion System (PMRS). The FAA had found, and our Claims Group agreed, that Mr. Hutson was ineligible for a merit increase because of a regulation issued by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) barring increases for employees who are promoted into the PMRS within 90 days of the effective date of a merit increase. For the reasons stated below, we reverse the settlement and approve payment of the merit increase. BACKGROUND On June 3, 1990, the FAA temporarily promo6ed Mr. Hutson from a non-PMRS grade GS-13 staff Air Traffic Control Specialist position toga grade GM-14, PMRS Area Supervisor in Milwaukee. The temporary promotion was to expire 'Z-2866999-347, Sept. 23, 1991. mIIn i'

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