USPS, Management Groups Reach Agreement On Salary Protection For DUO Impacted Postmasters

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The agreement between USPS and Management Associations covers salary protection for Postmasters and Station Managers who are downgraded as a result of Delivery Unit Optimization Implementation

Here is a summary of agreement from the National League Of Postmasters:

League President Mark Strong has received a memo from Postal Headquarters stating that a solution and understanding of our meetings over the past few weeks has been reached for the Delivery Unit Optimization (DUO) impacted Postmasters/station managers with regard to the recent proposal to change ELM 415… This agreement is only for those Postmasters/station managers impacted by DUO and is a result of the three management organizations working extremely hard with Postal Headquarters on the DUO program through the consultative process that led to this solution. Since we had just finalized the DUO consultative process it was important that we dealt with these impacted Postmasters/station managers separately from the proposal to change section 415 of the ELM.

The agreement states that Postmasters and station managers whose EAS grade levels are reduced as a result of implementation of DUO will receive saved grade for two years and indefinite saved salary thereafter provided they adhere to the following:

• During the two-year saved grade period affected Postmasters and station managers downgraded as a result of DUO should apply for lateral reassignment to vacant duty assignments at their saved grade/level within their commuting areas.

• During the two-year saved grade period Postmasters and station managers downgraded as a result of DUO may be reassigned involuntarily to vacant assignments at their saved grade/level within their commuting areas. Salary protection for affected Postmasters and station managers who decline such involuntary reassignment will terminate at the beginning of the pay period following such refusal.

• If no lateral opportunity becomes available during the two-year saved grade period, affected Postmasters and station managers receive indefinite saved salary.

• These provisions apply only to Postmasters and station managers impacted by DUO.

We will continue to work with Postal Headquarters on the proposal to revise ELM 415. Please read the upcoming Presidents message for a full explanation of the memo received and consultations on the proposed revisions of ELM 415.

source: National League Of Postmasters

4 thoughts on “USPS, Management Groups Reach Agreement On Salary Protection For DUO Impacted Postmasters”

  1. misterwheat eat shit. BObby is quite right! maybe one day you free-loading blood sucking folks will actually have to do some work. then we will see who the cry-baby is! the whole idea here is to get rid of excess burdens for crying out loud. we are so bogged down with people who do not contribute to moving the mail that it is almost impossible to get your job done!!!!

  2. Hey B0bby why don’t you quit and go to work at Mickey D’s. Better yet try Wal-Mart. What a crock of sh*t. Cry baby.

  3. how quickly the worm turns on behalf of those who do not handle mail, empower their employees get what they feel is their entitlementwhile those who are injured on the job, or in defense of this country are denied what is lawfully theirs. Ms. collins where are you now, in my pay location we have 5 eas positions one of which is the MMO for less than 20 craft employees, you say you want hearings your hearings will be like the VOE surveys useless unless you speak with craft! while clerks continue to operate DBCS machines single handed injuring themselves without anyone elected to congress speaking out on their behalf yet you continue to P in our faces clap your hands and tell us we are in a thunder storm, i have been in a thunder storm before!

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