October 1, 1985
25.4.22
The employee sought a retroactive provision of family separation allowance entitlements for the period September to December 1984.
ln September 1984 the employee was posted to New York while his wife, who was also employed in the public service, continued working in Ottawa until December and joined her husband in January 1985. The employees' household effects were shipped in September.
The Administrative Committee considered and agreed with the report of the Foreign Service Directives Committee in that it was noted that the employees' spouse could have applied for and would have been granted leave without pay to accompany her husband to New York in September. Therefore the employee had been treated within the intent of the Directives as the employees' spouse had remained in Ottawa by personal choice for employment reasons.
The grievance was denied.