DECISION OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
The appellant, Jorge Torres-Velez, proceeding pro se, has petitioned the Board to review the Hearing Officer’s May 25, 2018 Order, which granted a motion to dismiss filed by the appellee, the Office of the Architect of the Capitol (“AOC”), as to some of Torres-Velez’s claims alleging violations of the Congressional Accountability Act (“CAA”), and which entered summary judgment in favor of the AOC on all claims that were not dismissed. Upon due consideration of the Hearing Officer’s orders, the parties’ briefs and filings, and the record in these proceedings, the Board affirms the Hearing Officer’s Order, as modified herein.
I. Background and Procedural History
At all relevant times, Torres-Velez has been employed by the AOC at the Capitol Visitor Center (“CVC”) as the Restaurant Events Manager at a GS-12 pay grade. He is also the Contracting Officer’s Technical Representative (“COTR”) for the contractor that serviced the CVC and Senate restaurants. Torres-Velez filed a request for counseling on July 19, 2017, and on February 16, 2018, following counseling and mediation, he filed a complaint with the Office of Congressional Workplace Rights in which he claimed “unfair [job] classification, hostile work environment, because of sex and reprisal and. . . denial of equal pay, in violation of section(s) 201, 203, and 207 of the Congressional Accountability [Act].”
Because the complaint did not include any particulars about the events, dates, times or circumstances of these claims, the Hearing Officer ordered Torres-Velez to file an amended complaint. On February 27, 2018, Torres-Velez filed an amended complaint which included an attachment entitled, “Continuation of [OOC] Complaint Section A.” In it, he asserted that in June 2015, his former supervisor at the CVC, Miguel Lopez, was reassigned from the CVC Restaurant and Special Events Division (“RSED”). Torres-Velez claimed that, as a result, from June 2015 through March 2017, he remained in the RSED and “assumed and managed all areas previously managed by Mr. Lopez (pay grade GS 14) minus the Visitors Center’s special event section.”
