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B-188195 1 (1978-01-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadfmm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I FILE: B-188A93 DATE; January 3, 1978 MATTER OF: Harriet B. Marple - Retroactive Salary lIcreaae DIGEST: Employee of Environmental Protection gency was hired by Administrator with understanding she would be vppointed at a grade GS-15, stop 7, level. On discovery that the employee had been appoinred at grade CS-15, step 1. level, the Administrator requested Civil Service Commis- cihn approval of employee's appointment at the higher rate and approval was received prospec- tively. Employee may not receive retroactive salary increase, however, since regulation requ.res that appointments to positions in grade 9S-11 or above at a rate abo.*e the rinimud rate of the appropriate grade be made only with the prior approval of the Commission. Mr. Alvin L. Alm, Ass-:'tant Administraror for Planning and Management, Environmental P:otection Agency (EPA), requested author±saLion to make a retroactive salary increase in the case of Ms. Harriet B. Marple, an emp...oyee of EPA. FACTS Ms. Marple was initially employed by EPA on October 3, 1976, aE an Attorney-Adviser, CS-905-15, step 1, and she served. as the personal legal adviser to the then Administrator of EPA, Mr. Russell Trai;. It was the stated intention of Mr. Train, when Me. Marple was hired, that 1Hs. Marple be brought on at grade GS-15, step 7, level, thus afrording her the maximum per- misaible pay of $39,60K per annu. Mr. Alm rotates in his sub- mission, however, that through admintiatrativa error, approval for hiring Ms. Marple above the minimum rate of the grade GS-15 level was not secured from the Civil Servtce Commission (CSC) at the time of Ms. Marple's appointment, so she was accordingly assigned the pay of grade GS-15, step 1, $31,309. Or. November 3, 1976, after Ms. Marple received her first paycheck at grade GS-15, step 1, level, at which time it was recogniied a mistake had been made, Mr. Train wrote the Chairman '' ~\~.THE CCMPITRCLLF- OF THE UrdITEL DECIICNWAUHINGTON. L; C' 6%gy'9f ,, I Tof (V CD k L-

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