SALARY DIFFERENTIAL DUE DETAILED EMPLOYEES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP58-00453R000200090019-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 6, 2001
• Sequence Number: 19
• Content Type: MF

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M I NDUM F CR: Comptroller
General Course]
Director of Personnel
SUBJECT: Salary Differential due Detailed l.o s
1. PROBLEM: An employee on temporary assigr=ent or tenporary duty away
from his post of assignment may be due a corresponding Increase or
reduction of salary differential. Tie appears no feasible msrner
by which this Agency can properly administer the controlling regula-
tions prescribed by the Department of State.
2. FACTS BEARING ON THE PROBL
a. Federal employees in foreign arm are paid salary differential
while on detail in accordance with the Standardized Regulations
(Government Civilians, Foreign Areas) promulgated by the Depart-
ment of State on C; June 1953 pursuant to authority contained in
Section 443 of the Foreign Service Act of 1946, 22 USC 888, and
Parts I and IV of Executive Order No. 1.0,000 of 16 September 1948.
These regulations became effective with the biweekly pay period
which began 7 June 1953.
b. Individuals detailed for 60 or more days from post of assignment
to a post of higher classification are entitled to the higher
rate. Payments to employees so detailed must be arapported ',y
a personnel actioc, a travel order and the completed itinerary.
c. Reduction or stoppage of differential paid employeeo is manda-
tory where the employee, while away from his post of asaigntrent,
makes a stopover of ;..4 or more days at a post of lower clasni-
fication or an unclassified pos
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DISC 1 SIC83
a. Proper administrati . of tie Standardized Regulations governing
increases in differential due a loyeees detailed 60 or more days
to a higher rate post appears possible by reason of tLe require-
meat of personnel documentation as a prerequisite to payment
b. The requirement for reduction of differential is that any
temporary assignment or duty of an employee comprising 14 or more
days at a post bearing a lower c amsificatic than his post
of assignment autosatica? =_y operates to reduce or discontinue
differential for said period.
c. In order to avoid overpayments of salary differential to
employees assigned to differential posts and vho perform travel
to other posts it becomes necessary for the payrolling operation
to have current pledge of the details of each such trip
taken by an emp loyee .
d. Due to this Agency's centralized payrolling procedures it appears
patently impossible to prevent or even discover suucb overpayaents
for the following reasons:
(1) Area travel is ordinarily ordered and in many cases
paid by the station involved, headquarters only knowledge
thereof being derived from station accountings months later.
(2) Of the written travel authorizations on file in the Finance
Division, a considerable percentage are canceled and nc:
travel is performed thereunder. Finance Division does not
receive adequate notification of such cancellations and
cannot rely on these orders in adjusting salary differentials.
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It furthermore appears inequitable to require personnel
documentation and a 60 day stay at a hardship post before an employee
earns differential when a l day stay at another post will deprive
an employee of all or a portion of his differential -
C0NCLUSIt S
a. There is no method by which unnumerable o erpayments of salary
differential can be prevented if the standardized R$gulations
are applied as written.
b. Proper administration would be possible if the reduction of
differential were required on the same basis as increases, i.e.,
60 day stopover, personnel action, travel order, itinerary.
c. This would enable headquarters to attain proper control of the
differential payments through the presence of personnel actions
in each such case and would preclude the inequities apparent
the prescribed regulation.
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5. ACTIM RECOMMENIED
a. That this Agency not recognize the definition of detail contained
in Section 115g (2) of the Standardized Regnlati s, but instead
recognize the following definition of detail contained in
Section 115g (1) of said regulations as morning both increases
and reductions in salary differential payments to Agency ersployees.
"The temporary assignment or temporary} duty of an employee away
From his permanent station not classified for differential to
a post or area which is so classified, or away front his permanent
station which is classified for differential to a post or area.
classified at a higher rate, when the head of agency shall have
determined by appropriate personnel documentation that the
contemplated duration of the temporary
is for a substantial period of time estimat
t or teemporar- duty
sixty calendar days, or that its actual duration w
calendar days or more .
b. That the attached Tab I. be issued as an
cure which will assure
y Rotic
differential payments during the period of time
*y to obtain a permanent solution to the problem.
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