If you opt out we will not be able to offer you personalised ads and The management at my station passes out the overtime unfairly. forced to carry overtime off their assignment on their regularly scheduled day. Can Police Stop Someone Randomly To Question Them? I worked for a different Post Office that was completely opposite. to learn more. I'm a letter of 37yrs. day worked pay" or "holiday scheduling premium." For the purpose of the overtime provisions outlined in Article 8, the only work that is contractually considered to be overtime for full-time employees working on their holiday or designated holiday is work beyond eight hours in a day. It is not currently a federal holiday or a weekend. Eligible employees will receive their second voluntary early retirement offer this Friday, and must decide whether to take the offer no later than July 16. Nope, that's not wrong. This is the season for ot. But my route gets average the most packages around our Zoon, and they just did a route checked a week ago, but for some reasons that my route still showing 1hour under everyday. I am continually reminded that I am a "salaried employee" that "stays until the work is done". I am a carrier who chooses 8 hrs only. Yet they still have to pay the 8 hour guarantee. I understand there's days that we are short staffed, and we are on our own. Yet finding that perfect match remains elusive. Postal Service operations just weeks before Christmas and runoff elections in Georgia that will decide control of the U.S . There's one caveat, though: UPS SurePostand UPSMail Innovations deliveries will take an extra day due to the MLK holiday. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising. I can't believe you guys are just wasting money in overtime pay and hours and breaking down your employees health. Take an educated, motivated person who brings what the USPS needs to thrive and kill them with excessive hours because of POORLY trained supervisors. Management had decided to undertake a new program whereby we would increase production, which is a worthwhile goal. Under what circumstances, if any, can I be forced to work my holiday on Saturday. I love my job and I don't want to quit but it's affecting my personal life. There might also be labor laws that prevent them from working too much, I believe there's something about not working more than 24 hours in a 48 hour period. Postal Service. Fix the underlying problems with the system and you will see an improvement. Wagner also said USPS, by lifting the hiring freeze, would create landing spots that would give RIF-ed employees a shot at another agency job instead of a layoff. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Is that the same for clerks? But the relief job description might provide that ammunition. Find the root of the problem and work on a solution. I have not been on the ODL since some time in the 1990s. King has route 050036 and worked 1.23 hours of overtime on route 050060, C. Munro has route 050025 and worked 1.38 hours of overtime on route 050022, T. Shah has route 050053 and worked 2.00 hours of I don't even remember what he looks like! The rate is well above the Postal Service's target rate of 5 percent. In an office of 13 clerks serving a major university town with 3 window stations, we were using approx 60 hrs of overtime a week - done primarily by clerks on the OTDL. or is saturday? This culminated with King Jr. delivering his iconic "I Have A Dream" speech to a crowd of more than 250,000 on the National Mall in Washington D.C. All employees on this sub are here of their own volition to talk to and interact with other employees and customers. I would fight tooth and nail for Monday to be the 6th punch if I were a Tu-Sa schedule. However, we have stopped publishing new material on the site. We can only enforce MORE Saturday Ks. They hate to pay it and try to force you into a pay actual. As long as ODL is fully used for the 12 hours or need to make truck. There is no overtime list and I i'm never given the option to have my day off even if I ask for it. choices) and/or to monitor site performance. 1) Other than the month of December, at least in OUR Contract, they cannot work you more than 12 hours, and that's 12 clock hours, not 12 hours on the Clock. of the site will not work as intended if you do so. You might as well throw safety out the window. However, the casing of the mail usually goes to several of the highest paid carriers instead of the lowest paid CCAs. It may not display this or other websites correctly. You can be mandated, but they have to notify you properly of it. Management's citing of chronic "under staffing" to justify forced overtime does not meet the letter or the intent of the national agreement. Jose Maria Casais's 2,700 euros-a-month income from a pension and incapacity benefits ought to leave him better off than most of his fellow Spaniards. 29 Next Please note that all of this content is user-generated and its accuracy is not guaranteed by Indeed or this company. Over the past 6 years, as volumes have steadily declined, the Postal Service has done a better job of matching its work hours to its workload. Carriers get injured often, or quit, or transfer out as soon as they get the chance. The USPS should look a little closer at who the supervisors are using the perform the workload to help save on operational costs. Treat your employees right and they'll treat your job right and be productive workers, Why is there mandatory 4 hours overtime every night for 6 days a week, there is not enough work for that. The only differences now we are utilizing a brand-new workforce of postal service employees whom do not receive overtime payment until their 40 hour plus one unit. Couldn't think of a real good 3rd one, but when in doubt, a nice hot bath with Epsom Salts. they don't tell me to come in on my SDO, because they know I'll refuse. When a nonexempt postmaster is required to work on the sixth day because relief is not available, premium pay at 150 percent of the postmaster's basic salary is paid for this time. To help you plan ahead, here is a list of the remaining holidays for 2023: Although post offices are closed on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, you're not completely out of luck. I am a rural carrier and am working over my evaluation every day. the proper consequences of their failure to staff or schedule properly) then they will continue to violate their employees..rights. so the current postmaster hasn't hired enough CCA's to fill these positions. USPS also reported a loss of $8.8 billion in fiscal year 2019, which was itself nearly more than double its losses for the year prior. Download the revamped Federal News Network app. USPS will post available positions in three waves. Overall, overtime hours accounted for more than 7 percent of total workhours in both fiscal years (FY) 2011 and 2012. 1 4 L. livin the dream Well-Known Member. If so you should surprise them next time with your 2nd Amendment rights. We are humans. Because of this, there is often no one to take my place on my day off. visiting for our advertising and marketing efforts. January 16, 2023, 2:00 AM PST. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. They should not be penalized for a system malfunction. DHL, on the other hand, "will not be provide pickup and delivery services" on MLK Day and plans to "resume normal pickup and delivery services on the following day," according to the website. Just what we old timers need is to kill ourselves working an extra 3 or 4 hours every day. If management is experienced mail carriers and understand the process completely, it should not be difficult to recognize what the existing problems are and how to fix it. then suddenly we were forced to work 13 days straight without a day off, when I became an unassigned regular I showed more backbone than I ever had as a CCA, I refused to work days off, and my supervisor tried to just cause me a few times, I never backed down. You may exercise your right to opt out of the sale of personal This I think would solve the problem of over worked RCA's and clerks in many offices and also would give many people who have no knowledge of what it's like to carry and sort mail and relate to customers, a real world experience. We encourage you to visit our blog, which has a new topic for discussion every Monday. It was noted that "UPS SurePost and UPS Mail Innovations deliveries will require one additional business day's time in transit due to the Federal (USPS) holiday.". That is why we have so many manuals guides and teachers as well as union representatives to make sure that everything falls in line. Overtime is paid at 1.5 times an employee's hourly rate. , and that her number one priority is to take care of our customers. * Side note there is never a time where it is OK for supervision to be crossing crafts so openly and with such impunity or lack of feigning respect for the unions that comprise the workforce of the United States Postal Service. " traffic on our website. intended if you do so. I have been at the post office for 17 years, 8 years as an RCA, and 9 years as a full time rural carrier. I used to love coming to work now I get all stressed out as I drive there daily sometimes crying because I don't want to be there but unfortunately my bills won't pay themselves. I would want my longer day to be all OT pay too. For Tue-Sat guys volunteering on Mondays, Monday is considered their sixth punch. I just had a baby less than 7 month ago and still on breastfeeding. They should still be paid their same salary. We do not want to work overtime. Regulars are exhausted and often get sick due to being over worked. In this latter district, the Postal Service paid seven mail handlers between $65,000 and $76,000 each for overtime workhours in FY 2012, resulting in their salaries more than doubling. etc.). It has been a pleasure providing you with federal workforce and benefits information over the last several decades. Im 2years in and will be leaving soon. How many minutes of notice is a person supposed to receive in order to be told they have to work overtime by USPS supervisor? As far as the mailhandlers are concerned, there are a few that have bad more annually in overtime then they have with their annual salary. I am a regular rural carrier. your data under the CCPA. Personal Information. I am now being forced to take vacation days before end of September because of going over my evaluated time, thru no fault of my own. Is it the best tool for managing workhours during consolidations, closures, and realignments? Today was my day off and I just worked 9 hoursagain. Visit www.allaboutcookies.org In fact, the USPS was just forced to suspend certain services over a major safety pr Over the years, we've come to expect the U.S. This may impact the The post office is in trouble. You cannot opt-out of our First Party Strictly Necessary USPS uses overtime to give it flexibility in operations. They should speak for themselves. Now obviously the regular can refuse, but most people just want their hours and could't care less what they do and since there's no expectation they'll milk it all they want. I am physically and mentally a mess when I am at work. City carriers in Laconia,NH have been mandated on thier days off for almost a year. You are using an out of date browser. Note: These hours are excluded from the determination of FLSA overtime. Because we do not track you across different devices, So how long do the employees have to suffer before someone steps in to help. Anytime you work a day off, it is not part of your normal schedule, so you get OT pay. I have lost my day off and money during previous mail counts. This has been going on far to long. You can usually find these settings in the Options or Preferences menu of your I am fully aware that the DBCS is capable of processing 40,000 pieces of mail per hour. The mailhandlers on the workroom floor that did make it to work are rather busy documenting cross craft done by the clerks in order to dispatch mail in a timely fashion, as you all may know: dispatch waits for no man. The Postal Services paid overtime costs have been steadily increasing the past 4 years. Four holidays are observed on the actual day which changes from year to year: New Year's Day January 1, Independence Day July 4, Veterans' Day November 11 and Christmas Day December 25. In general, "hours worked" includes all time an employee must be on duty, or on the employer's premises . (I have seen it so busy that every supervisor on deck was running mail in automation. To check the specific operating hours of your local USPS location, please visit the official locator page on the USPS site. No weekends off, as an ARC you will work mainly Sundays, as an RCA you will work Monday-Sunday with only one guaranteed day. Not sitting at a desk, but walking and moving. With respect and in solidarity : A historic crush of e-commerce packages is threatening to overwhelm U.S. Preferences menu of your browser. information. Then ask by Seniority & force by Junior. The U.S. Not there for the carrier. Jory Heckman is a reporter at Federal News Network covering U.S. In the past 20 years I have worked thousands upon thousands of hours of overtime and have been asked and forced to work hundreds of days off. receive 8 hours work or pay when they come in on their off day. I am a CCA in Bangor, ME. All that matters nowadays is making the numbers look right, no matter what it takes. O. Overworked driver New Member. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. The postal service cannot expect to hold on to employees without making some changes. You're best bet would be to look in your supplemental Rider under work day work week. You get paid your 8 hr guarantee at the OT rate. As a reminder, this subreddit is not an extension of official USPS customer service therefore inquiries by customers may be removed by mods if a question is answered by the FAQ or the post is in violation of our rules. It should explain if. Check payroll records. But at this time, thats not anything that Im particularly focused on, DeJoy said during the April 5 interview. Whatever the motivation, the mandatory call for overtime, for Everyone, is an abuse of the policy much less the physical hazard to employees. I'm sure they have a program that track people's time and optimize placement accordingly. According to the Nat. I have been a Rural Carrier for 31.5 years. Honor them. On their website, the USPS explained: "Post Offices will reopen on Tuesday, Jan. 17, with full mail delivery and retail service . Off day me to come in on their regularly scheduled day is it the best tool for workhours! 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