Month: December 2009

Dec 26th

Appeals Court Upholds Arbitrator's Decision Assigning Bar Code Scanning To APWU

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 […]

Dec 25th

Senate-Passed Health Bill Safeguards FEHBP Risk-Pool, But Taxes Premiums

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; […]

Dec 20th

District Court Dismisses Lawsuit Against USPS For Selling Employees Personal Data

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 […]

Dec 20th

APWU National Officer Prevails In MSPB Case On USPS Reassessment Program

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 […]

Dec 20th

USPS: Sick Leave Credit For FERS Employees

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 […]

Dec 20th

USPS Plans To Root Out Sex Offenders

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 […]

Dec 17th

Sen. John McCain Complains About USPS Giving Senators Personalized Stampbook

December 16, 2009 The Honorable John E. Potter Postmaster General & Chief Executive Officer Unites States Postal Service 475 L’Enfant Plaza, S.W. Washington, D.C. 20260 Dear Postmaster General Potter: Thank you for sending me the engraved albums highlighting the newly issued commemorative stamps. I ask that in the future you refrain from sending me such […]