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B-182950 1 (1978-01-23)

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                        THE  COIPTROLLER GIENERAL
DECISION              . OF  THE   UN¶ITED STATES
                        WAS  H IN GTON,  u.C. 2054  8


FILE:  B-182950

MATTER  OF:   A
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DATE:  January 23, 1978


ngelo C. Zuaro - Implementation of
rievance examiner's recommendation


Grievance examiner recommended that
employee be retroactively promoted
on basis that employee wes treated
differently than other employees in
similar positions. General rule is
that retroactive promotion may be
allowed only where administro tive
error or unjustified or unvarranted
personnel actions have deprived
employee of right granted by statute
or regulation or where agency failed
to follow nondiscretionary administrative
regulation or policy. Failure te treat
employee in precisely equal or
identical manner as other similarly
situated employees does not meet
above standards so as to entitle
employee to retroactive promotion.


     This action Is made at the request of Robert J.
Blackwell, Assistant Secretary for Maritime Affairs,
Department of Commerce, for an advance decision as
to the propriety of implementing the recumwendations
of a grievance examiner to retroactively p:oimote
Mr. Angelo C  Zuaro.

     Mr. Zuoro, an Associate Professor in the Department
of Physical Education and Athletics at the U.S. Merchant
Marine Academy, applied for a promotion to the academic
rank of Professor on January 5, 1976. The request was
denied by the Superntendent of the Academy on May 19,
1976, and Mr. Zuaro filed a grievance requo'slng, inter
alia, that he bct promoted to the rank of P..aessor7fiith
S5t'R pay from J61y 1, 1.76. In a report dated Fabruary 1,
1977, the grievance examiner found that Mr. Zuaro
should have been promoted on the date upon which his
promotion would have become effective had his request
for promotion of January 5, 3976, been timely approved.
The Maritime Administration accepted the grievance
examiner's recommendation and promoted Mr. Zuaro to


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