IN THAT DECISION WE DENIED HIS CLAIM FOR BACKPAY BASED ON HIS CONTENTION THAT HIS RATE OF PAY UPON PERMANENT PROMOTION TO A GRADE GS-8 POSITION SHOULD HAVE BEEN ADJUSTED ON THE BASIS OF THE RATE OF PAY HE RECEIVED WHILE TEMPORARILY PROMOTED TO A GRADE GS-7 POSITION. SMITH'S RATE OF PAY WAS PROPERLY ESTABLISHED UPON HIS PROMOTION TO GRADE GS-8. THAT TEMPORARY PROMOTION WAS EFFECTIVE THROUGH FEBRUAR...

EMPLOYEE CLAIMS BACKPAY ON BASIS THAT UPON PROMOTION TO GRADE GS-8 HE SHOULD HAVE RECEIVED A TWO-STEP INCREASE IN HIS RATE OF BASIC PAY BASED UPON THE GRADE GS-7 POSITION RATHER THAN THE GRADE GS-6 POSITION. WHERE PROMOTION DOCUMENT SHOWS PROMOTION TO GRADE GS-8 POSITION WAS FROM THE EMPLOYEE'S REGULAR POSITION AT GRADE GS- 6. EMPLOYEE COULD NOT HAVE BEEN PROMOTED FROM GS-7 TO GS-8 BECAUSE OF TIME...

An Army employee requested reconsideration of a decision in which his claim for backpay was denied. The claimant received a temporary promotion. Nine months later the Army terminated his temporary promotion and reclassified him to his former permanent position. The Army then permanently promoted him to a higher grade and step. The Army computed his grade and step as a two-step increase from his fo...

An advance decision was requested concerning a claim for backpay submitted by a Federal employee who claimed that his rate of pay upon promotion should have been adjusted on the basis of the grade level of his temporary promotion rather than on his original grade level. The employee's temporary promotion was terminated because he did not meet the applicable time in grade requirement. Since the emp...