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         <li>Full-time employees and part-time fixed schedule employees will only bid for vacant assignments within their own category.</li>

         <li>Full-time employees may apply for residual vacancies in the part-time fixed schedule category, and selection from such applicants shall be based on senior employee meeting the qualification standards.</li>

         <li>All vacant or newly established craft duty assignments shall be posted for employees eligible to bid. Vacant duty assignments will be posted within 28 days of the date the assignment becomes vacant unless a determination has been made that the position is to be reverted. If the vacant assignment is reverted, a notice shall be posted within that same 28 day period advising of the action taken and the

reasons therefore. In addition, a copy of the notice shall be provided to the appropriate Union representative.

<center>[See Letter, page 174 and Memo, page 176]</center></li>

         <li>When it is necessary that fixed scheduled day(s) of work in the basic work week for a craft assignment be permanently

changed, the affected assignment(s) shall be reposted. The change in work days shall not be effected until the job has been posted.

<center>[See Memo, page 176]</center></li>

         <li>The determination of what constitutes a sufficient change of duties, or principal assignment area, to cause the duty assignment to be reposted shall be subject to local negotiations in accordance with local implementation provisions of this Agreement.

<center>[See Memo, page 176]</center></li>

         <li>No assignment will be posted because of change in starting time unless the change exceeds an hour. Any change in starting time that exceeds one (1) hour shall be posted for bid, except when there is a permanent change in starting time of more than one hour and up to and including four hours, the incumbent shall have the option to accept such new reporting time. If the incumbent does not accept the

new reporting time, <b>the incumbent shall become an unassigned full-time regular, and</b> the assignment will be posted for bid.</br>

A change in start time of an assignment exceeding four (4) hours will include cumulative changes within the life of this Agreement. Cumulative changes must be within four hours prior and four hours after the start time of the assignment on the ratification date of this Agreement.</br>

When an assignment is posted for bid, the start time at the effective date of the bid will become the new point from which the cumulative changes are measured.</li>

         <li>Change in duty assignment, as specified below, will require reposting:

         <li>Vacant full-time Mail Handler assignments shall be posted for a period of ten (10) days.</li>

         <li>The installation head shall establish a method for handling multiple bidding on duty assignments which are simultaneously posted.</li>

         <li>An employee may withdraw a bid on a posted assignment, in writing or in the telephone or computerized bidding process, at any time before the closing time (hour and date) of the posting. Such withdrawal, to be official, shall be date stamped or processed by telephone or computer with confirmation.</li>

         <li>An unassigned full-time employee may bid on full-time duty assignments posted for bid by employees in the Mail Handler craft. An unassigned full-time employee may be