Section 12.2: Difference between revisions

=== Section 12.2 Principles of Seniority ===

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   <li>A Introduction

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       <li>A1 The United States Postal Service and the National Postal Mail Handlers Union, A Division of the Laborers’ International Union of North America, AFL-CIO, agree to the following seniority principles which replace all former rules, instructions, and practices.

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       <li>B Coverage

These rules apply to full-time and part-time fixed schedule employees. No employee, solely by reason of this Section shall be displaced from an assignment which the employee gained in ac- cord with former rules.

The installation head is responsible for the day-to-day administration of seniority. Installation heads will post a seniority list of Mail Handlers on all official bulletin boards for that installation <b>and provide an electronic or hard copy to the Union representative in that installation</b>. The seniority list shall be corrected and brought up to date quarterly.

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       <li>D Definitions

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           <li>D1 Craft Group

A duty assignment that remains vacant after the completion of the voluntary bidding process.

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   <li>E Relative Standing of Part-Time Flexibles

Part-time flexible employees and MHAs are placed on a part-time flexible or MHA roster, as appropriate, in the order of the date of their initial appointment in the installation. When changing such employees to full-time, they shall be taken in the order of their standing on the part-time flexible or the MHA roster.

When there is an opportunity for conversion to full-time status in an installation and that installation has both part-time flexible and MHA employees available for conversion, the PTFs will be con- verted to full-time regular prior to the conversion of the MHAs.

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   <li>F Changes in Which Seniority is Lost

Except as specifically provided elsewhere in this Agreement an employee begins a new period of seniority:

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       <li>F1 When the change is at the employee's request:

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   <li>G Changes in Which Seniority is Retained, Regained or Restored

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       <li>G1 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 Management, and in the case of resignation due to illness, by a statement from the applicant's attending physician or practitioner. When re- instatement 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>G8g 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 social security number, from the lowest to highest.

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           <li>G9 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.

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   <li>H 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.

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       <li>H1 Key and Standard Positions Assigned to the Mail Handler Craft

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[See Letter, page 162]

   <li>I 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>I1 When an occupied level 4 or 5 position is upgraded on the basis of the present duties:

       <li>I2 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>I2a The incumbent will remain in the upgraded job pro- vided 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.

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       <li>I3 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.

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