Postal Clerk failed to seek help through EEOC and submit claim to USPS Torts Claim Coordinator prior to filing lawsuit According to the lawsuit: Guy Johnson, a postal clerk in North Stonington, CT. claims stem from a number of allegedly harassing incidents at work beginning in March 2007. In March and June of 2007, a […]
Robert Di Paolo appeals a decision of the Merit Systems Protection Board (“MSPB” or “Board”) sustaining his demotion from the position of Postmaster to Supervisor in the Lincoln Post Office, Sacramento District, Pacific Area. The demotion was based on four charges: (1) inappropriate stamp purchases, (2) receipt of alcohol on postal property, (3) failure to […]
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Shirley McLennan, American Postal Workers Union, National Business Agent, Clerk Division, Cincinnati Region McLennan, Shirley L. (BAUCOM),66 of Louisville, passed away December 24, 2009 at Norton Healthcare Pavilion after a long battle with cancer with her loving family by her side. She was employed as a National Business Agent with the American Postal Workers Union […]
In 2001, APWU grieved the Postal Service’s assignment of bar code scanning work at the Oakland (CA) Airport Mail Facility . The Postal Service responded that the grievance was not a jurisdictional claim because the assignment was made before April 1992. In the District Court’s decision: Because APWU argued the merits of the grievance throughout […]
eNAPUS Legislative & Political Bulletin At 7:00 AM on Christmas Eve, the U.S. Senate sent to a yet-to-be-named House-Senate Conference Committee legislation (H.R. 3590) to revamp the nation’s medical marketplace. The Conference Committee will attempt to resolve the differences between the House and Senate-passed bills. The Senate passed its version on a 60-39 party-line vote; […]
This is an update on the nationwide class action court case involving Postal employees filed two years ago. Postal Employees claimed that USPS violated the Privacy Act by selling its employee master file, containing personal, private employee information, including “the complete home address database of all career and non-career, full and part-time employees. According to […]
OPM’s regulations provide the following restoration rights to a partially recovered employee: “Agencies must make every effort to restore in the local commuting area, according to the circumstances in each case, an individual who has partially recovered from a compensable injury and who is able to return to limited duty. At a minimum, this would […]
OPM TO ISSUE GUIDANCE, IMPLEMENTING REGULATIONSPostal employees who retire under the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) will receive credit for their unused sick leave when they retire. The new provision — which became effective Oct. 28 with the president’s signing of the fiscal year 2010 National Defense Authorization Act — will be phased in over […]
Data Comparison Program – Postal Service and Public Sex Offender Registries ACTION: Notice of Data Comparison Program – Postal Service and public sex offender registries via the Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Web site maintained by the Department of Justice. SUMMARY: The United States Postal Service® (Postal Service) plans to conduct an ongoing data […]