B-229104: Apr 4, 1988

CIVILIAN PERSONNEL - Compensation - Compensation retention - Administrative regulations DIGEST: An employee who held a 30-month Foreign Service term appointment with the Peace Corps was not entitled to retained pay when he exercised his statutory reemployment rights and was reemployed at ACTION at a lower rate of pay. There is no authority in the grade and pay retention statute. The 1965 amendment...

B-229104: Apr 4, 1988

An ACTION employee appealed his denied claim for retained pay when he transferred from the Peace Corps to ACTION, contending that, since the Peace Corps granted him retained pay when he transferred to it from ACTION, ACTION should have done the same when he returned. GAO held that: (1) regulations precluded the claimant from retaining the grade or rate of pay he held during the temporary assignmen...