# 2024-307 Pay and Benefits, Component Transfer, Relinquishment of Rank

Case summary

F&R Date: 2025-11-26

The grievor contested the effective date of the reduction in rate of pay following his simultaneous Component Transfer (CT) / Voluntary Occupational Transfer (VOT) from the Reserve Force to the Regular Force (Reg F). He contended that Canadian Forces Administrative Order (CFAO) 11-12, Occupation Transfer of Non-Commissioned Members-Regular Force, instructs that pay reduction takes effect on the first day of occupational training and he maintained that the Canadian Armed Forces acted in bad faith during his VOT by failing to administer his occupational training course in a policy-compliant manner which led to him being removed from the course and compulsory reassigned to a new occupation. Thus, he argued his pay should not have been reduced until his Compulsory Occupational Transfer (COT), approximately 6 months after his CT. 

The Director General Military Careers, acting as the Initial Authority (IA), rejected the grievance finding that it was submitted outside the time as prescribed at article 7.06 of the Queen's Regulations and Orders for the Canadian Forces. Consequently, there was no IA decision. 

The Committee found that in accordance with The Canadian Forces Military Personnel Instructions 03/08, Canadian Forces Component Transfer and Component Transfer Career Programs, the grievor's simultaneous CT/VOT was conducted properly, including the assignment of rank and pay increment upon entering the Reg F. The Committee then found that the reduction in pay was tied to his CT, not his COT, therefore whatever transpired after his CT, had no effect on the date of his reduction in pay. The Committee further commented that the CFAO 11-12 to which the grievor bases his arguments, only became relevant to his case after his COT. As his pay had already been adjusted by that point, and there was no further reduction in pay when moving from one Reg F occupation to another, this provision had no bearing on the grievor's circumstances. 

The Committee found the grievor not aggrieved and recommended the Final Authority deny any redress.