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B-246832 1 (1992-06-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadocb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ' A Ar Comptroller General of the United States WauldngVtn, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Boyd W. Venable III File: B-246832 Date: June 22, 1992 DIGEST Employee resigned following a general notice of a proposed reduction-in-force (RIF) but before the agency issued a specific notice of the personnel action to be effected pursuant to the RIF. The employee is eligible for severance pay under 5 U.S.C. § 5595,/ because implementing regulations allow severance pay if an employee resigns subsequent to a general notice that all positions within the employee's competitive area will be abolished. /5 C.F.R. § 550.706(a) (2). The RIF notice that the employee received before resigning qualified as a general notice under 5- C.F.R. § 550.706(a) (2) because it announced the abolishment of all positions within the employee's competitive area by a date certain. DECISION Mr. Boyd W. Venable III, a former employee of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) appeals our Claims Group settlement' denying his claim for severance pay. For the reasons stated below, we reverse the Claims Group's action and authorize the payment of severance pay. BACKGROUND Mr. Venable was formerly employed as an attorney at the FDIC Knoxville Consolidated Office, Knoxville, Tennessee, from July 11, 1983, until May 10, 1991. On February 25, 1991, the FDIC Regional Director issued a memorandum entitled Office Closing to all employees of the Knoxville Consolidated Office informing them that the FDIC had decided to close the Knoxville Consolidated Office by June 1, 1991. Subsequent to this notice of office closing, the FDIC offered Mr. Venable an attorney position in its Atlanta, Georgia office which Mr. Venable declined to accept, deciding in the alternative to accept a job offer in the 'Z-2867439, Nov. 29, 1991.

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