Editing Questions You Didn't Know to Ask (section)

== Time ==
=== Time Keeping ===
Postal time is a clock divided into hundredths. Each click is thirty-six seconds. If you clocked-out at .83 the time is 50 minutes. if you plan to clock out at ten after the clicks would be <b>.17</b>. To calculate the time for clicks take the time divided by sixty. To find the minutes take the clicks and multiply by sixty.
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="6"|Examples:
|-
|For Minutes
|For Clicks
|-
|.23 x 60 = 14 minutes
|33 ÷ 60 = .55
|-
|.45 x 60 = 27 minutes
|53 ÷ 60 = .88
|}
=== Leave ===
Incidental Leave
</p><p>AWOL
</p><p>LWOP
</p><p>Early Out
</p><p>Sick Leave
----
==== AL Annual Leave ====
AL Bidding
</p><p>
Past Bidding AL
----

==== Early to Shift ====
Unlike traditional private sector employment if a career bid job employee reports to the job early this doesn't mean the employee can then clock out after eight hours of work. An example would be an employee clocked-in two hours early and then clocked-out two hours prior to their shift ending. As a bid job employee the employee as agreed to work the bid job scheduled hours. The two hours early fall outside of the bid job schedule and are overtime. When the employee clocks-out two hours early the time keeping system flags the employee's time and a supervisor will mark the time as LWOP or Leave without Pay. If an employee generates more than eighty hours of LWOP the LWOP deducts any saved or generated AL or annual leave. LWOP must be paid back before an employee can retire. Again the bid job employee has agreed to work the scheduled time and LWOP cheats the Postal Service of the agreed time. Some employees clock-out a few clicks or a few minutes before the end of the bid shift. In this instance though incidental it is ultimately up to the supervisor if they choose to penalize the employee with LWOP for clocking-out early.

==== Late to Shift ====
An employee who arrives late should inform their supervisor that they have arrived late to avoid being marked as AWOL or Absent Without Leave. Depending on the supervisor and if the employee is a repeat offender the supervisor may still penalize the employee. The Postal Service allows up to eight clicks or five minutes of tartiness without generating an AWOL mark.
----

=== Over Time ===
==== Are You Required to Stay ====
===== 204b Supervisors =====
[http://wiki.themailhandlerunderground.org/index.php/Dual_Employment_PFSCA1955#Dual_Employment_and_Extra_Duties 204b] Supervisors are not exempt from overtime calls. If mandatory overtime has been called for a specific craft then the 204b of the same craft and tour is also required to observe the overtime.
----

==== When Must Over Time Be Called ====
The latest overtime must be called is five minutes before the end of the shift. Despite the belief that overtime must be called two hours or a some other arbitrary number this is not true. The reason overtime must be called five minutes prior to the end of the shift is the contractual five minute paid wash-up. This five minutes belongs exclusively to the employee. The [https://www.apwu.org/ APWU's] clerk contract has a provision requiring that overtime be called at least an hour and a half prior to the shift's last fifteen minute break period.
----

==== ODL ====
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.
</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 =====
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.
==== Creeping Overtime ====
The postal service allows employees to clock-in eight clicks or five minutes early. For career employees any time outside of your straight time or bid job schedule is overtime. The five minutes early falls into overtime. Supervisors sometimes warn staff of creeping overtime.
----