# 2024-100 Pay and Benefits, Pay, Recruitment Allowance

Case summary

F&R Date: 2025-04-23

The grievor grieved the terms set out in the Military Occupation List - Pay Increments and Recruitment Allowances (MOL PIRA) to determine the recruitment allowances for officers upon enrolment. He felt that the MOL PIRA in effect at the time he was recruited did not allow for the recognition of the experience he had acquired prior to his enrolment, even though he used this experience in service of the Canadian Armed Forces. The grievor also considered it unfair that the version of the MOL PIRA amended four years later allowed officers with a graduate degree to directly access pay increment 5. As redress, the grievor requested that the latest version of the MOL PIRA be amended to include members with graduate degrees who enrolled before it was released, thereby enabling him to obtain a retroactive adjustment to his pay increment. 

The Director General Compensation and Benefits, acting as the Initial Authority (IA), found that the grievor had been treated appropriately and in accordance with the directives in effect. In her decision, the IA said that compensation and recruitment allowances approved under the MOL PIRA can be granted only upon enrolment via the enrolment message. The grievor's compensation was determined by the version of the MOL PIRA in effect at the time of his enrolment, which stated that an officer admitted with a graduate degree would be granted pay increment 3. As a result, the IA determined that the grievor's request to take into account his years of education and work experience could not be granted. 

The Committee found that the amended version of the MOL PIRA did not apply to the grievor, as he was already enrolled and this measure is applicable to new recruits only. The MOL PIRA is not retroactive as it is periodically amended. The Committee recommended that the Final Authority not grant the grievor any redress.