Claim for Backpay and Retroactive Promotion

An employee appealed a settlement denying her claim for backpay and retroactive promotion. The GS-4 employee was informally detailed to another GS-4 position on November 2, 1971, and was officially reassigned to that position on March 5, 1972. The employee claimed backpay and retroactive promotion to GS-5 from March 5, 1972, until September 3, 1972, when she was promoted to GS-5. GAO held that the employee was not entitled to backpay since the reassignment terminated the temporary detail, and the claim after termination was actually based upon an alleged error in the classification of the position. The promotion to GS-5 resulted from the employee's classification appeal to the Civil Service Commission (CSC) on the ground that she was performing GS-7 work. An agency reclassification of the position to GS-5 was held as proper by CSC. The former decision denying the claim was upheld.