Claim for Retroactive Promotion and Backpay

A former civilian employee of the Army asked reconsideration of a previous disallowance of his claim for a retroactive temporary promotion and backpay. The employee alleged that he was assigned additional duties which were not contained in his position description and which involved the supervision of another employee of the same grade classification. The employee also claimed he was misclassified and improperly denied pay as the result of inordinate delays in the processing of his request for reclassification, and he further suggested that his nonpromotion was the result of racial discrimination. It is not within the jurisdiction of the Comptroller General's Office to conduct investigations into, or to render decisions on, claims of employment discrimination in other agencies. A Federal employee is entitled only to the salary of the position to which he is actually appointed, regardless of the duties performed. Since it was not shown that the employee was actually on an official detail to an existing, established, classified, higher grade Federal position, the previous settlement was sustained.