VIRGINIA MAHLKUCH, Claimant, 21. THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Respondent.
Case summary
Claimant sought retroactive salary after a job reallocation reconsideration. The court awarded $337.27, finding the payment was not prohibited by statute because it compensated for work performed at a rate lower than the duties required.
Statutes cited: Ill. Rev. Stat., ch. 127, par. 145
Cases cited: Claire Crawford v. State of Illinois, No. 77-CC-1790
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Headnotes
- WILLIAM J. SCOTT, Attorney General (P AUL M. SENGPIEHL, Assistant Attorney General, of counsel), for Respondent. STATE EMPLOYEES BACK SALARY CLAIm-position reallocation. Under Personnel Rule 1-30, back pay due to reconsideration of a job audit is to be made retroactive to the date of the request for reconsideration.
- SAME-f'ett'OUCtiUe salary increase. Payment of salary retroactive to time of request for reconsideration of job audit does not violate law prohibiting additional payment for work already performed in that Claimant was being paid at a rate less than called for by the duties being performed.
This is a claim for retroactive salary based upon a reconsideration opinion as a result of the Claimant's request for a job reallocation. The original request for audit and reallocation was denied by the agency in June of 1975 when the Claimant filed a request for reconsideration with the Department of Personnel. The procedure involving a reconsideration is commonly referred , to as a fourth level grievance procedure and is governed by Rule 1-30 of the Department of Personnel rules as interpreted by the director of the Department of Personnel. The procedure under Rule 1-30 is for the back pay to be granted retroactive to the date of application for reconsideration.
This case is analogous to the situation that was brought before this Court in the case of Claire Crawford v . State of Illinois, No, 77-CC-1790, in that the claim is for retroactive salary back to the date of the application for reconsideration. In Claire Crawford (supra) this Court held that the retroactive salary was not prohibited [*144] by Ill. Rev. Stat., ch. 127, par. 145, which generally prohibits back pay except in cases involving the application of the prevailing rate principle or based upon the effec:tive date of a collective bargaining agreement. This case happens to be neither of the above but as in Claire Crawford (supra) we find that the fact that the Claimant was paid at a rate less than that called for by the duties being performed by the Claimant takes it out of the prohibition of Ill. Rev. Stat., ch. 127, par. 145, in that the retroactive payment would not be a payment which “would constitute in fact an additional payment for work already performed and ‘for which remuneration had already been made,” which is prohibited by Ill. Rev.
Stat., ch. 127, par. 145.
Therefme, inasmuch as .&hisretroactive salary payibited by Ill. Rev. Stat., ch. 127, par. 145, and it is not in violation of Rule 1-30 as interpreted by the director of personnel, we hereby grant an award to this Claimant in the amount s f ‘$337.27 subject to the appropriate additions and withholdings as required by the State Employee’s Retirement System, F.I.C.A. and State and Federal income tax requirements.