Postmaster A Victim of Customer Stalking Wins MSPB Appeal
From the Merit System Protection Board:
The EAS-16 Postmaster in Diamond, Ohio, alleged that the USPS placed her on enforced leave due to its failure to reassign her to another post office. The administrative judge gave the Postmaster notice of the burden to establish jurisdiction over an enforced leave claim in two situations, where an agency places an employee on forced leave to inquire into her ability to perform and where an employee who is absent for medical reasons asks to return. Read more
Postal Worker Wins Discrimination Suit Against NY Postmaster
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After complaint filed Postmaster gets temporary assignment as USPS District Manager of Operations
CARTHAGE — A federal court jury has awarded a U.S. Postal Service employee about $125,000 in back pay after finding that her full-time position was eliminated because of complaints that she was being discriminated against for being a woman.
Roberta K. Faul had sued the service in U.S. District Court in October 2006, claiming that men working in the Carthage post office were given preferential treatment over women and that her full-time position was eliminated when she filed complaints about the disparate treatment.
After a five-day trial last week in Binghamton, an eight-person jury deliberated for two hours before deciding that the elimination of Ms. Faul’s full-time job was retaliation for the complaints. In addition to more than 61/2 years of back pay, plus interest, the jury awarded her $25,000 in compensatory damages for the emotional stress brought about by losing her full-time position as window clerk.
The Postal Service also must reinstate her to her original position or pay her the equivalent of what she would be making as a full-time employee. Since March 2004, she has been working in what the service refers to as “part-time flexible capacity.”
“The Postal Service just has to do a better job overseeing their supervisors, and they really have to instill in their supervisors an ability to be fair and equitable to their employees, and quit riding them like they’re jockeys,” said Ms. Faul’s attorney, Marc E. Weinstein, Philadelphia, Pa.
Ms. Faul, who has worked for the Postal Service since 1986, filed a federal Equal Employment Opportunity complaint in 2002 alleging that women in the Carthage post office were treated less favorably than men.
After the complaint was filed, it was claimed that Postmaster Jeffrey A. Sands, who later became postmaster in Watertown and was named in March as the service’s manager of operations for the northern tier of the Albany District, offered to have Ms. Faul transferred to a supervisory position in another post office, but she declined.
full story: Watertown Daily News
Former Maryland Postmaster Pleads Guilty To Stealing More Than $50,000 In Stamps
GREENBELT, MD. — Prosecutors say a former postmaster has pleaded guilty to stealing nearly $60,000 in stamps from the post office where he worked.
Fifty-six-year-old Gilbert Ennis of Lanham entered the plea Tuesday. He will be sentenced Dec. 6 and has agreed to pay restitution from his federal retirement account.
According to his plea agreement, on Nov. 23, Ennis reported an armed gunman had entered the post office when he was working there alone, demanded he open the safe and ordered Ennis into a bathroom.
Ennis told authorities that a box in the safe that held more than $50,000 in stamps was stolen.
Investigators found the box in Ennis’ car and that nearly $2,000 worth of stamps were missing from his drawer.
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