B-192875: Jan 15, 1980

The Department of the Treasury requested an opinion concerning whether payment by a requesting agency for the services of complaints examiners employed by the Civil Service Commission (CSC) represented an illegal transfer of agency funds. Before January 1, 1979, a formal discrimination complaint was first heard within the agency where it arose at a hearing conducted by a complaints examiner who wa...

B-192875: Jan 15, 1980

DIGEST: REIMBURSEMENT TO CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION FOR SERVICES OF COMPLAINTS EXAMINERS ASSIGNED TO CONDUCT DISCRIMINATION COMPLAINT HEARINGS FOR OTHER FEDERAL AGENCIES WAS A PROPER TRANSFER OF THOSE AGENCIES' FUNDS PURSUANT TO THE ECONOMY ACT. SINCE IT WAS A NECESSARY EXPENSE OF AGENCY WHERE THE COMPLAINT AROSE TO PROVIDE AN IMPARTIAL AGENCY-LEVEL HEARING ON ALL FORMAL DISCRIMINATION COMPLAINTS. C...