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Claim for Severance Pay

B-193913 Apr 06, 1979
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An employee of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) requested that the denial of his claim for severance pay be reviewed. The record indicates that the employee received memoranda stating that he was to be involuntarily separated from his position as part of an IRS plan to streamline the smaller districts. On the basis of the office memoranda, the employee resigned. The streamlining proposal, however, did not receive Senate approval and the employee's position was not abolished. The employee claimed entitlement to severance pay on the ground that he had been involuntarily separated from his position, but the claim was denied. In affirming that decision, it was held that the employee was not entitled to severance pay because he did not receive general or specific notice that he was to be involuntarily separated. Memoranda setting forth in general terms a proposal for abolishing an employee's position did not satisfy requirements of general or specific notice that the agency's reorganization plan was definite and that the employee's position would be abolished.

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