3/1/09

Work Assignment List - A question recently arose in our office regarding if management can have someone throw mail on a carrier's route when he/she is not in that day or is on the street. The ruling is as follows:

• If carrier "a" is on "work assignment list" and he/she is off that day, mail can be thrown on their route
• If carrier "a" is working the day and management has someone throw mail in his/her case it must be a PTF or TE. If someone on ODL throws mail on his/her route on the day they work it is a violation. That is carrier "a"'s O/T

• M-00911 STEP 4
  February 22,1989, H4N-4G-C 13743
  A letter carrier who signs for work assignment overtime is both entitled and obligated to work any overtime that occurs on the carrier's assignment on a regularly scheduled day, except when the carrier would perform the work at the penalty overtime rate and when another carrier who had signed he regular OTDL could perform the work at the regular overtime rate
  
  NOte: This settlement does not preclude management assigning overtime to a casual or a PTF rather than an employee on the work assignment list. See C-06103, Mittenthal and C-00675 Zumas.
• M-00589 Work Assignment Agreement
  May 28, 1985
  Once management determines that overtime is necessary for full-time letter carriers, if the carrier has signed up for "work assignment" overtime, the carrier is to work the overtime as assigned by managment.

1/11/09

Attendance and DOIS. I'd like explain how I will address them to anyone from the union's perspective;

Attendance

The contract is the contract. By that I mean I will enforce the contract to protect your right to use your sick leave. No carrier should be intimidated into coming to work.

Article 10 LEAVE addresses this. Sick Leave: Article 10, Section 5 provides for the continuation of the sick leave program, whose detailed regulations are contained in ELM Section 513. Section 513.1 defines sick leave as leave which "insures employees against loss of pay if they are incapacitated for the performance of duties because of illness, injury, pregnancy and confinement, and medical (including dental or optical) examination or treatment."

ELM Section 513.65 provides, "If an employee becomes ill while on annual leave and the employee has a sick leave balance, the absence may be charged to sick leave."

Medical certification.ELM Section 513.361 establishes three rules:

• a. For absences of more than three days an employee must submit"medical documentation or other acceptable evidence" in support of an application for sick leave ("three days" means three scheduled workdays; see Step 4 H1N-5B-C 3428, November 3, 1983, M-00489); and
  
  
• b. For absences of three days or less a supervisor may accept an employee's application for sick leave without requiring verification of the employee's illness (unless the employee has been placed in restricted leave status, in which case verification is required for every absence related to illness reguardless of the number of days involved); however
  
  
• c. For absences of three days or less a supervisor may require an employee to submit documentation of the employee's illness "when the supervisor deems documentation desirable for the protection of the interests of the Postal Service."

"What happened to the music on the intercom", everyone is overheard asking. "Mr. big" is coming. So let me get this straight, no talking, no music, no phone use, no farting, NO BREATHING!

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One day while talking to coworker Bob Warwzynek, I mentioned that Dorothy Krysiuk, on-air traffic personality at Fox 29 had moved onto my route. Since Bob sometimes covers my route when I'm not there, I usually update him on changes on the route.

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