ARTICLE 12
PRINCIPLES OF SENIORITY, POSTING AND
REASSIGNMENTS
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Below is Article 12.5.a and 12.5.b which is what is taking place locally.***
Article 12.5
Section 5. Reassignments
A. Basic Principles and Reassignments
When it is proposed to:
- l. Discontinue an independent installation;
- 2. Consolidate an independent installation (i.e.,
discontinue the independent identity of an
installation by making it part of another and
continuing independent installation);
- 3. Transfer a classified station or classified branch to
the jurisdiction of another installation or make an
independent installation;
- 4. Reassign within an installation employees excess
to the needs of a section of that installation;
- 5. Reduce the number of regular work force
employees of an installation other than by
attrition;
- 6. Centralized mail processing and/or delivery
installation (Clerk Craft only);
- 7. Reassignment—motor vehicles;
- 8. Reassignment—part-time flexibles in excess of
quota; such actions shall be subject to the
following principles and requirements.
B. Principles and Requirements
- l. Dislocation and inconvenience to full-time and
part-time flexible employees shall be kept to the
minimum consistent with the needs of the service.
- 2. The Vice-President, Area Operations shall give full
consideration to withholding sufficient full-time
and part-time flexible positions within the area for
full-time and part-time flexible employees who may
be involuntarily reassigned. When positions are
withheld, local management will periodically
review the continuing need for withholding such
positions and discuss with the union the results of
such review.
- 3. No employee shall be allowed to displace, or
“bump” another employee, properly holding a
position or duty assignment.
- 4. The Union shall be notified in advance (as much as
six (6) months whenever possible), such notification
to be at the regional level, except under A.4
above, which shall be at the local level.
- 5. Full-time and part-time flexible employees involuntarily
detailed or reassigned from one installation
to another shall be given not less than 60 days
advance notice, if possible, and shall receive
moving, mileage, per diem and reimbursement for
movement of household goods as appropriate if
legally payable will be governed by the standardized
Government travel regulations as set forth in
Methods Handbook F- 10, “Travel.”
- 6. Any employee volunteering to accept reassignment
to another craft or occupational group,
another branch of the Postal Service, or another
installation shall start a new period of seniority
beginning with such assignment, except as
provided herein.
- 7. Whenever changes in mail handling patterns are
undertaken in an area including one or more postal
installations with resultant successive reassignments
of clerks from those installations to one or
more central installations, the reassignment of
clerks shall be treated as details for the first 180
days in order to prevent inequities in the seniority
lists at the gaining installations. The 180 days is
computed from the date of the first detail of a clerk
to the central, consolidated or new installation in
that specific planning program. If a tie develops in
establishing the merged seniority roster at the
gaining installation, it shall be broken by total
continuous service in the regular work force in the
same craft.
- 8. Whenever in this Agreement provision is made for
reassignments, it is understood that any full-time
or part-time flexible employee reassigned must
meet the qualification requirements of the position
to which reassigned.
- 9. Whenever the provisions of the Section establishing
seniority are inconsistent with the provisions
of the Craft Articles of this Agreement, the
provisions of the Craft Articles shall prevail.
- 10. It is understood that any employee entitled
hereunder to a specific placement may exercise
such entitlement only if no other employee has a
superior claim hereunder to the same position.
- 11. Surplus/excess U.S. Postal Service Employees—
Surplus/excess U.S. Postal Service employees
from non-mail processing and non-mail delivery
installations, regional offices, the U.S. Postal
Service Headquarters or from other Federal
departments or agencies shall be placed at the foot
of the part-time flexible roll and begin a new period
of seniority effective the date of reassignment.
Except as provided in Article 12.2, surplus/excess
U.S. Postal Service employees from an APWU
bargaining unit in any such facility shall begin a
new period of seniority but will retain their full-time
or part-time status.