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A request submitted in writing, by telephone, or by computer to be assigned to a duty assignment by an employee eligible to bid on a vacancy or newly established duty assignment or a preferred assignment. Where telephone, computer, or other electronic bidding procedures are established, bids must be submitted by telephone, computer or other electronic methods as agreed to by the parties.</br></br> | A request submitted in writing, by telephone, or by computer to be assigned to a duty assignment by an employee eligible to bid on a vacancy or newly established duty assignment or a preferred assignment. Where telephone, computer, or other electronic bidding procedures are established, bids must be submitted by telephone, computer or other electronic methods as agreed to by the parties.</br></br> | ||
<center>[See Memo, page 172 - 173]<center></li> | <center>[See Memo, page 172 - 173]<center></li> | ||
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<li>Application</br></br> | <li>Application</br></br> | ||
A written request by a full-time employee or part-time fixed schedule employee within the employee's respective category for consideration for an assignment for which the employee is not entitled to submit a bid.</li> | A written request by a full-time employee or part-time fixed schedule employee within the employee's respective category for consideration for an assignment for which the employee is not entitled to submit a bid.</li> | ||
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<li>Changes in Which Seniority is Retained, Regained or Restored | <li>Changes in Which Seniority is Retained, Regained or Restored | ||
<ol style="list-style-type:decimal"> | <ol style="list-style-type:decimal"> | ||
<li>Reemployment After Disability Separation. On reinstatement or reemployment after separation caused by disability, retirement or resignation because of personal illness and the employee so stated in the employee's resignation and furnished satisfactory evidence for inclusion in the employee's personnel folder, the employee receives seniority credit for past service for time on the disability retirement or for illness if reinstated or reemployed in the same postal installation and craft and in the same or lower salary level, from which originally separated; provided application for reinstatement or reemployment is made within six months from the date of recovery. The date of recovery in the case of disability retirement must be supported by notice of recovery from the Compensation Group, Office of Personnel | <li>Reemployment After Disability Separation. On reinstatement or reemployment after separation caused by disability, retirement or resignation because of personal illness and the employee so stated in the employee's resignation and furnished satisfactory evidence for inclusion in the employee's personnel folder, the employee receives seniority credit for past service for time on the [[OPM|disability retirement]] or for illness if reinstated or reemployed in the same postal installation and craft and in the same or lower salary level, from which originally separated; provided application for reinstatement or reemployment is made within six months from the date of recovery. The date of recovery in the case of disability retirement must be supported by notice of recovery from the Compensation Group, Office of Personnel | ||
Management, and in the case of resignation due to illness, by a statement from the applicant's attending physician or practitioner. When reinstatement is to the part-time flexible roster, standing on the roster shall be the same as if employment had not been interrupted by the separation.</li> | Management, and in the case of resignation due to illness, by a statement from the applicant's attending physician or practitioner. When reinstatement is to the part-time flexible roster, standing on the roster shall be the same as if employment had not been interrupted by the separation.</li> | ||
<li>Restoration. On restoration in the same craft in the same installation after return from military service, transfer under letter of authority or unjust removal, employee shall regain the same seniority rights the employee would have if not separated.</li> | <li>Restoration. On restoration in the same craft in the same installation after return from military service, transfer under letter of authority or unjust removal, employee shall regain the same seniority rights the employee would have if not separated.</li> | ||
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<li>Except as otherwise specifically provided for in this Agreement, effective the date of this Agreement, when it is necessary to resolve a tie in seniority between two or more Mail Handler craft employees, the following criteria shall apply in the order set forth below: | <li>Except as otherwise specifically provided for in this Agreement, effective the date of this Agreement, when it is necessary to resolve a tie in seniority between two or more Mail Handler craft employees, the following criteria shall apply in the order set forth below: | ||
<ol style="list-style-type:lower-alpha"> | <ol style="list-style-type:lower-alpha"> | ||
<li>Prior to March 25, 2023 | <b><li>Prior to March 25, 2023</b> | ||
<ol style="list-style-type:lower-roman"> | <ol style="list-style-type:lower-roman"> | ||
<li>Total continuous postal career service in the Mail Handler craft within the installation.</li> | <li>Total continuous postal career service in the Mail Handler craft within the installation.</li> | ||
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</ol> | </ol> | ||
</li> | </li> | ||
<li>On or after March 25, 2023 | <b><li>On or after March 25, 2023 | ||
<ol style="list-style-type:lower-roman"> | <ol style="list-style-type:lower-roman"> | ||
<li>Total continuous postal career service in the Mail handler craft within the installation.</li> | <li>Total continuous postal career service in the Mail handler craft within the installation.</li> | ||
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<li>Total postal service in the Mail Handler craft.</li> | <li>Total postal service in the Mail Handler craft.</li> | ||
<li>Total postal career service within the installation.</li> | <li>Total postal career service within the installation.</li> | ||
<li>Total postal career service.</li> | |||
<li>Total Federal service as shown in the service computation date.</li> | |||
<li>Numerical by the last 3 or more numbers (using enough numbers to break the tie but not fewer than 3 numbers) of the employee’s Employee Identification Number (EIN), from the lowest to highest.</li></b> | |||
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<li>Effective January 1, 2007, any Mail Handler who voluntarily transfers from one postal installation to another postal installation, and is subsequently accepted for voluntary transfer back to | |||
the original postal installation within one (1) year, shall have seniority established as the seniority the employee had when she/he left the original installation minus credit for service for the time away from that installation.</li> | |||
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<li>All positions presently in the Mail Handler craft, including higher level positions, shall be filled by the senior qualified bidder meeting the qualification standards for the position, except that those positions which are presently designated best qualified shall be filled by the best qualified applicant. | |||
<ol style="list-style-type:decimal"> | |||
<li>Key and Standard Positions Assigned to the Mail Handler Craft | |||
<ol style="list-style-type:lower-alpha"> | |||
<li>Key Position | |||
<ul style="list-style: none;"> | |||
<li>Mail Handler, MH 4, KP 8</li> | |||
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<li>Standard Positions | |||
<ul style="list-style: none;"> | |||
<li>Group Leader Mail Handler, MH 5, SP1-33</li> | |||
<li>Label Printing Technician, MH 5, SP2-578</li> | |||
<li>Label Machine Operator, MH 4, SP2-579</li> | |||
<li><nowiki>*</nowiki>Laborer, Materials Handling, MH 3, SP1-11</li> | |||
<li>Mail Handler Equipment Operator, MH 5, SP2-21</li> | |||
<li>Mail Equipment Handler, MH 4, SP2-247</li> | |||
<li>Mail Handler Technician, MH 5, SP2-498</li> | |||
<li>Mail Processing Machine Operator, MH 5, SP2-354</li> | |||
<li>Mail Processing Machine Operator, MH 5, SP2-470</li> | |||
<li>Packer-Shipper, MH 4, SP2-581</li> | |||
<li><nowiki>*</nowiki>When the "Laborer, Materials Handling" position is authorized for the post office branch, it is delegated to the Mail Handler Craft. When authorized for the Maintenance Branch it is assigned to the Maintenance Craft.</li> | |||
<li>Sack Sorting Machine Operator, MH 4, SP2-367</li> | |||
<li>Sack Sorting Machine Operator, MH 5, SP2-438</li> | |||
<li>Typist-Label Printing, MH 4, SP2-580</li> | |||
<li>Computer Print Line Production Operator, MH 5, SP2-632</li> | |||
<li>Mail Rewrapper, MH 4, SP2-9</li> | |||
</ul> | |||
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</ol> | |||
<li>Individual Positions Assigned to the Mail Handler Craft:</br> | |||
Group Leader Mail Handlers, MH 6, IP248-7, 2315-02, Group Leader Sack Sorter Machine Operator, MH 6, IP25- | |||
11-1, 2315-28, Mail Handler Leadman, MH 5, IP32-12-1, 2315-80.</li> | |||
<li>All Mail Handler employees of Level MH-5 may bid for the position of Examination Specialist, SP2-188.</li> | |||
<center>[See Letter, page 173]</center> | |||
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<li>Filling Positions Reevaluated as One of the Positions Reserved for Bidding by MH 4's, MH 5's and MH 6's. | |||
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<li>When an occupied level 4 or 5 position is upgraded on the basis of the present duties: | |||
<ol style="list-style-type:lower-alpha"> | |||
<li>The incumbent will remain in the upgraded job provided the incumbent has been in that job for more than one year</li>. | |||
<li>The job will be posted for bid in accordance with the Agreement if the incumbent has not been in the job for more than one year.</li> | |||
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<li>When an occupied level 4 or 5 position is upgraded on the basis of duties which are added to the position: | |||
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<li>The incumbent will remain in the upgraded job provided the incumbent has been in that job for more than one year. The year of required incumbency in the job begins when the employee first begins working the assignment.</li> | |||
<li>The job will be posted for bid in accordance with the Agreement if the incumbent has not been in the job in accordance with .2I2a, above.</li> | |||
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<li>When management places automatic equipment in an office and an employee is assigned to operate the equipment, the time the employee spends on this job before it is ranked established shall be counted as incumbency in the position for the purpose of being upgraded or assigned.</li> | |||
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