Fines Now Total Nearly One Million Dollars APWU News Issuing its third set of citations in less than a week, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) charged the USPS with five counts of “willful” safety violations [PDF] in Bedford Park, IL on May 5. The latest citations bring the Postal Service’s total fines for […]
CHICAGO. – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited the U.S. Postal Service with three alleged willful violations at its Bedford Park, Ill., processing center. The Postal Service faces a total of $210,000 in fines, for electrical and protective equipment hazards, following an OSHA inspection conducted in response to employee […]
APWU News USPS Subcontractor Defrauds Drivers of Wages, Benefits Postal Management Refuses to Sever Ties with Company Last month, newspapers reported a settlement [PDF] between the Department of Labor and a USPS subcontractor that exemplifies the problem with postal subcontracting: After three years of defrauding its workers of pay and benefits, the contractor, MT Transportation […]
A class action complaint for injured on duty postal employees was certified by an EEOC Administrative Judge (AJ) on May 30,2008. In the case of (Read article from February 17, 2009) Sandra McConnell, et al. v. United States Postal Service an AJ decision certified the following class: All permanent rehabilitation employees and limited duty employees […]
The company and its principal officers also will be debarred from receiving future government contracts for a three-year period. BAY SHORE, N.Y. — The U.S. Department of Labor will recover more than $1.8 million in back wages for more than 500 employees of MT Transportation & Logistics Services Inc., a trucking company based in Bay […]
APWU News Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis announced [PDF] Dec. 7 that she is reviewing changes made early this year to regulations governing the Family and Medical Leave Act. The announcement has set off speculation that the Department of Labor will overturn revisions implemented at the very end of the Bush administration. APWU members may […]
The U.S. Department of Labor has filed suit against the U.S. Postal Service, alleging that a former Seattle Processing and Distribution Center postal employee was discharged in violation of the whistleblower provisions of the Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Act of 1970. According to the court documents: On or about January 21, 2008, the postal […]
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Labor-Management Standards recent criminal enforcement data: On June 8, 2009, in the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas, Brian Brownlee, former Vice-President of American Postal Workers Union (APWU) 2nd District (located in Hot Springs, Ark.), pled guilty to embezzling union funds in the amount of […]
APWU News APWU President William Burrus has called on U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Hilda Solis to rescind the new regulations [PDF] governing the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) that were imposed by the Bush Administration just days before the former president left office. The Bush FMLA rules “weakened the law and made it more […]
From PostalReporter reader The Dept of Labor has issued a new FMLA Opinion Letter titled, “Employee Notice and Call-In Procedures,” that rescinds previous policy. Basically, it says that the employer’s usual and customary notice requirements for leave can be enforced in most cases of FMLA absences. The burden of proof that it wasn’t “practicable” to […]