{"id":1570,"date":"2010-10-24T09:19:36","date_gmt":"2010-10-24T14:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=1570"},"modified":"2010-10-24T09:19:36","modified_gmt":"2010-10-24T14:19:36","slug":"rural-carrier-guarantee-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2010\/10\/24\/rural-carrier-guarantee-period\/","title":{"rendered":"Rural Carrier Guarantee Period"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>All Post Offices With Rural Delivery Service: Rural Carrier Guarantee Period<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Postal Service managers must effectively man\u00adage rural carriers who work under the provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) section 7(b)(2). Those carriers are paid overtime for all hours actually worked in excess of 2,080, up to 2,240, within the 52-consecutive-week guar\u00adantee period.<\/p>\n<p>If a carrier works more than 2,240 hours within the guar\u00adantee period, the agreement under FLSA, section 7(b)(2), is considered void, and the carrier must be compensated for all hours worked during the guarantee period in accor\u00addance with FLSA, section 7(a).<\/p>\n<p>Local management must track and validate regular car\u00adrier work hours throughout the guarantee year to avoid and\/or minimize the number of carriers exceeding 2,080 or 2240 actual work hours.<\/p>\n<p>The current 2009\u20132010 guarantee period in effect for the past year began Saturday, October 24, 2009, and goes through Friday, October 22, 2010. The new 2010\u20132011 guarantee period will begin on Saturday, October 23, 2010 and continue through Friday, October 21, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Postal Bulletin: Rural Delivery,<br \/>\nDelivery and Post Office Operations, 10-21-10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All Post Offices With Rural Delivery Service: Rural Carrier Guarantee Period Postal Service managers must effectively man\u00adage rural carriers who work under the provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) section 7(b)(2). Those carriers are paid overtime for all hours actually worked in excess of 2,080, up to 2,240, within the 52-consecutive-week guar\u00adantee period. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-usps-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1570"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1572,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions\/1572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}