APWU: Revised FMLA Forms

APWU Web News Article 66-2012, May 31, 2012 The union has posted revised FMLA forms for use by healthcare providers to certify serious illnesses of APWU members [PDF] and their family members. [PDF] The forms the union created in 2009 “ solicit all of the information required under law,” Industrial Relations Director Mike Morris noted […]

APWU Encourages Members to Use DOL Forms For FMLA Leave Requests

The APWU is encouraging members to use Department of Labor forms when requesting Family & Medical Leave, while the union pursues a dispute with the Postal Service over employees’ right to use APWU forms or other equivalent documentation. In a Dec. 17, 2010, memo [PDF] to local, state, and national union officers, Mike Morris, director […]

USPS Seeks Supplier To Conduct All Non-Work Related Medical Exams

From the Federal Business Opportunities website: The United States Postal Service (USPS) is pursuing a National Agreement with a Supplier(s) that has or is capable of developing a comprehensive Medical Provider Organization for conducting all non-work related medical examinations for the USPS. Postal Service offices are located in each of the 50 states plus Puerto […]

FMLA Leave Expanded to More Parents And Children

The Department of Labor issued the following clarification on the expanded FMLA regulations: Neither the statute nor the regulations restrict the number of parents a child may have under the FMLA.  For example, where a child’s biological parents divorce, and each parent remarries, the child will be the “son or daughter” of both the biological […]

New FMLA Rules Increase Time Off To Help Care For Veteran, Active-Duty Relatives

Postal employees will have more opportunities to take time off work to help family members who are military service members or veterans under new rules mandated by the 2010 National Defense Authorization Act. The law, signed late last year by President Obama, allows employees to take up to 12 weeks of paid or unpaid leave […]

Clarification On Use of APWU FMLA Forms

From APWU: In response to a letter from the Postal Service stating that the APWU’s FMLA forms are not equivalent to the Department of Labor’s FMLA forms, the union has written the Postal Service clarifying our position on the use of the forms. Some managers have interpreted the USPS’s comments to mean that the APWU’s […]