In this subpart:
Agency has the meaning given that term in section 5596(a) of title 5, United States Code.
Appropriate authority means an entity having authority in the case at hand to correct or direct the correction of an unjustified or unwarranted personnel action, including (a) a court, (b) the Comptroller General of the United States, (c) the Office of Personnel Management, (d) the Merit Systems Protection Board, (e) the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, (f) the Federal Labor Relations Authority and its General Counsel, (g) the Foreign Service Labor Relations Board, (h) the Foreign Service Grievance Board, (i) an arbitrator in a binding arbitration case, and (j) the head of the employing agency or another official of the employing agency to whom such authority is delegated.
Collective bargaining agreement has the meaning given that term in section 7103(a)(8) of title 5, United States Code, and (with respect to members of the Foreign Service) in section 1002 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 4102(4)).
Employee means an employee of an agency. When the term employee is used to describe an individual who is making a back pay claim, it also may mean a former employee.
Grievance has the meaning given that term in section 7103(a)(9) of title 5, United States Code, and (with respect to members of the Foreign Service) in section 1101 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 4131). Such a grievance includes a grievance processed under an agency administrative grievance system, if applicable.
Pay, allowances, and differentials means pay, leave, and other monetary employment benefits to which an employee is entitled by statute or regulation and which are payable by the employing agency to an employee during periods of Federal employment. Agency and employee contributions to a retirement investment fund, such as the Thrift Savings Plan, are not covered. Monetary benefits payable to separated or retired employees based upon a separation from service, such as retirement benefits, severance payments, and lump-sum payments for annual leave, are not covered.
Unfair labor practice means an unfair labor practice described in section 7116 of title 5, United States Code, and (with respect to members of the Foreign Service) in section 1015 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 4115).
Unjustified or unwarranted personnel action means an act of commission or an act of omission (i.e., failure to take an action or confer a benefit) that an appropriate authority subsequently determines, on the basis of substantive or procedural defects, to have been unjustified or unwarranted under applicable law, Executive order, rule, regulation, or mandatory personnel policy established by an agency or through a collective bargaining agreement. Such actions include personnel actions and pay actions (alone or in combination).
[46 FR 58275, Dec. 1, 1981, as amended at 60 FR 47040, Sept. 11, 1995; 64 FR 69178, Dec. 10, 1999]
Notes of Decisions
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6 in the last 5 years), 1976–2025 · leading case:
Athey v. United States, 908 F.3d 696 (Fed. Cir. 2018).
Athey v. United States, 908 F.3d 696 (Fed. Cir. 2018).
· cites it 5× “at 58 ,272 ; see 5 C.F.R. § 550.803 (1981). The *701 court determined that because the 1981 regulation defined "pay" so broadly and because OPM comments specifically excluded from that broad definition only retirement benefits and not lump-sum payments, lump-sum payments…”
United States v. Fausto, 484 U.S. 439 (1988).
· cites it 2× “5 CFR § 550.803 (c) (1968). And the Court of Claims had held (with some circularity of reasoning) that it was such a court because it had jurisdiction to award backpay.”
Chester A. Wallace v. Off. of Pers. Mgmt., 283 F.3d 1360 (Fed. Cir. 2002).
· cites it 6× “He asserts that the 1999 version of the Act’s implementing regulation, 5 C.F.R. § 550.803 , provided such coverage, and that OPM’s later amendment of that regulation to specifically exclude retirement benefits contravened the purpose of the statute.”
Athey v. United States, 123 Fed. Cl. 42 (Fed. Cl. 2015).
· cites it 8× “§ 5596 ; 5 C.F.R. § 550.803 OPINION AND ORDER CAMPBELL-SMITH, Chief Judge Pending before the court are two class actions, Athey v.”
United States v. Testan, 424 U.S. 392 (1976).
“The statute’s language was intended to provide a monetary remedy for wrongful reductions in grade, removals, suspensions, and “other unwarranted or unjustified actions affecting pay or allowances [that] could occur in the course of reassignments and change from full-time to…”
In the Matter of Brad Levenson, 587 F.3d 925 (9th Cir. 2009).
· cites it 2× “” 5 C.F.R. § 550.803 . The commentary accompanying the regulations explains that “benefits received under the Federal employee health benefits .”
Adams v. United States, 48 Fed. Cl. 602 (Fed. Cl. 2001).
· cites it 2× “See 5 C.F.R. § 550.803 (2000). An appropriate authority is “an entity having the authority in the case at hand to correct or direct the correction of an unjustified or unwarranted personnel action, including (a) a court____” Id.”
Gavette v. Off. of Pers. Mgmt., 808 F.2d 1456 (Fed. Cir. 1986).
“Under 5 C.F.R. § 550.803 “ ‘[appropriate authority’ means an entity having authority in the case at hand to direct or direct the correction of an unjustified or unwarranted personnel action, including (a) a court____” [Emphasis added].”
In the Matter of Golinski, 587 F.3d 956 (9th Cir. 2009).
· cites it 2× “5 C.F.R. § 550.803 . The “agency” here is the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 5 U.”
Summers v. United States, 227 Ct. Cl. 353 (Ct. Cl. 1981).
· cites it 2× “[ 5 C.F.R. § 550.803 (d) (1977) (current version at 5 C.”
Ainslie v. United States, 55 Fed. Cl. 103 (Fed. Cl. 2003).
· cites it 2× “§ 2105 (a) (1994); see also 5 C.F.R. § 550.803 (defining “employee” as an “employee .”
Adam v. Norton, 636 F.3d 1190 (9th Cir. 2011).
· cites it 2× “5 C.F.R. § 550.803 (emphasis added). Thus, an appropriate authority found that an act of commission (plaintiffs’ termination) was unjustified by virtue of substantive violation of plaintiffs’ rights (age discrimination) under applicable law (the ADEA).”
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