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The ODL or Overtime Desired List is a list of all employees on a tour that would like to work overtime if it is called. The signup sheets for the ODL are usually posted two weeks prior to the start of the next quarter. The ODL follows the employee until they sign themselves off the ODL. For example if you signup for the ODL while working on tour 3 and then move to tour 1 you will still be on the ODL. Therefore it is false when management says you must re-signup for the ODL each quarter. | The ODL or Overtime Desired List is a list of all employees on a tour that would like to work overtime if it is called. The signup sheets for the ODL are usually posted two weeks prior to the start of the next quarter. The ODL follows the employee until they sign themselves off the ODL. For example if you signup for the ODL while working on tour 3 and then move to tour 1 you will still be on the ODL. Therefore it is false when management says you must re-signup for the ODL each quarter. | ||
To remove yourself from the ODL you write a brief statement that you wish to be removed from the ODL. You turn this statement into your union shop steward. | To remove yourself from the ODL you write a brief statement that you wish to be removed from the ODL. You turn this statement into your union shop steward. | ||
</p><p>If you are ODL but don't want to do overtime that particular night you can be by-passed. This is applicable outside of PEAK season, the month of December. To be by-passed, write a statement before the ODL call and turn it into the shop steward. | </p><p>If you are ODL but don't want to do overtime that particular night you can be by-passed. This is applicable outside of PEAK season, the month of December. To be by-passed, write a statement before the ODL call of the day and turn it into the shop steward. | ||
===== ODL Bypass ===== | ===== ODL Bypass ===== | ||
The term ODL Bypass is when an overtime call is made late in the shift when half of the tour has already clocked out. This late call cheats the earlier tour crew that are on the ODL from the overtime being offered. This is a grievance offense. | The term ODL Bypass is when an overtime call is made late in the shift when half of the tour has already clocked out. This late call cheats the earlier tour crew that are on the ODL from the overtime being offered. This is a grievance offense. | ||
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=== Breaks === | === Breaks === | ||
Is an employee required to take fifteen minute breaks or lunch? There is no federal labor law requiring breaks or lunch. Labor laws of this nature fall under state jurisdiction and since the USPS is part of the federal government it is not subject to state labor law. The employer however is still legally required to offer breaks and lunch per the regulation of OSHA or the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, a federal agency. Technically you are not required to take lunch or breaks, however, you are required to follow the instructions of your supervisor. OSHA can penalize the employer for an employee's failure to take an off-the-clock lunch. | Is an employee required to take fifteen minute breaks or lunch? There is no federal labor law requiring breaks or lunch. Labor laws of this nature fall under state jurisdiction and since the USPS is part of the federal government it is not subject to state labor law. The employer however is still legally required to offer breaks and lunch per the regulation of OSHA or the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, a federal agency. Technically you are not required to take lunch or breaks, however, you are required to follow the instructions of your supervisor. OSHA can penalize the employer for an employee's failure to take an off-the-clock lunch. | ||
=== Mail Handler Cross Crafting === | |||
If a supervisor instructs an employee to do work which does not belong to the member's craft can the member grieve the instructions of the supervisor. The craft member can write an observation on themselves and report that observation to a steward of the craft of which the Mail Handler is cross crafting, but the Mail Handler will not receive grievance funds and the Mail Handler cannot refuse to do the instructed work. Failure to comply with instructions of a supervisor is a serious offense and can result in discipline. If the Mail Handler is a Mail Handler Assistant failure to follow instructions can disqualify the employee from achieving career status. Failure to follow instructions is a walk-out-able offense. Management has the right to give an employee instructions that are contrary to the craft's work. The unions have the right to hold management accountable to their respective contracts and local agreements through the grievance procedure. | |||
=== Displacement and Backfill === | |||
Displacement is when a bid job employee is moved out of their bid job to work elsewhere in the facility. Backfill is when persons are placed in that bid job who are junior in seniority, are on overtime, or are of another craft doing the work of the displaced bid employee. Displacement and Backfill are grievable. Cross crafting and/or bargaining work is also grievable. Bargaining work is cross crafting of management. | |||