Key legal question
Whether an administrative law claim is admissible for a dispute over classification in a salary class and requested promotion.
Extracted holding
No. A dispute about assignment to a particular salary class is only indirectly pecuniary and therefore does not qualify as a pecuniary claim under § 48(1)(a) GO.
Extracted reasoning
The court held that administratively litigable pecuniary claims cover direct monetary entitlements such as salary, allowances, and compensation. By contrast, matters whose financial consequences are only indirect, including service-year crediting, salary-class assignment, and promotion requests, are not admissible by administrative action.