{"id":20729,"date":"2017-08-27T09:16:43","date_gmt":"2017-08-27T14:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=20729"},"modified":"2017-08-27T09:16:43","modified_gmt":"2017-08-27T14:16:43","slug":"apwu-2017-peak-season-exception-period-mou-reached","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2017\/08\/27\/apwu-2017-peak-season-exception-period-mou-reached\/","title":{"rendered":"APWU: 2017 Peak Season Exception Period MOU Reached"},"content":{"rendered":"
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08\/25\/2017<\/span>\u00a0–\u00a0<\/span>The APWU and the USPS recently signed a\u00a0Memorandum of Understanding (MOU),\u00a0<\/a>RE: Peak Season Exception Periods \u2013 2017 Date Changes<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0modifying the Peak Season (Holiday Season) Exception period for 2017 to \u201censure adequate coverage\u201d and \u201caccommodate customer service.\u201d<\/p>\n

Peak Season Dates<\/strong><\/p>\n

The start of the Peak Season Exception Period will be from Nov. 11, 2017 (Pay Period 24), and will go through Jan. 5, 2018 (Pay Period 1).<\/p>\n

Holiday Clerk Assistants<\/strong><\/p>\n

All Holiday Clerk Assistants (HCAs) will be paid at the PSE rate of $16.98, reflecting the 2.3% PSE pay raise that will go into effect Nov. 25. Function 4 HCAs will be hired for three consecutive pay periods within the exception period: either Nov. 11 \u2013 Dec. 22 or Nov. 25 \u2013 Jan. 5, 2018. The MOU does not change the length of the exception period.<\/p>\n

The MOU carries forward the\u00a0Peak Season Exception Periods<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>memo signed by President Mark Dimondstein and the USPS Vice President of Labor Relations in Sept. 2015. \u00a0Retirees have the opportunity to be rehired as temporary HCAs.<\/p>\n

The MOU also extends the deadline for the HCA applications to Sept. 25. Retirees Department Director Nancy Olumekor is sending letters to APWU retiree members to notify them of the opportunity and provide additional information about the application procedure.<\/p>\n

As with previous\u00a0memorandums<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0questions & answers\u00a0<\/a>regarding HCAs, the parties agreed that, \u201cthe Postal Service will provide the APWU at the national level with the names of annuitants who applied to work as a HCA, their former craft and their retirement date. The Postal Service will also indicate whether they were accepted or rejected for employment and the reason for the decision.\u201d<\/p>\n

No Temporary Supervisors<\/strong><\/p>\n

Although not in the MOU, the Postal Service agreed that they will not hire \u201ctemporary supervisors\u201d to supervise Clerk Craft employees during the Peak Season. Lead Clerks are available to provide oversight, direction and support to employees. There were numerous problems last year with the hiring of \u201ctemporary supervisors\u201d off the street who displaced Clerk Craft employees.\"\"<\/p>\n

\u201cThanks go to Assistant Clerk Division Director Lamont Brooks for his efforts in negotiating the agreement,\u201d said Clerk Division Director Clint Burelson. \u201cFixing the \u2018temporary supervisor\u2019 issue will improve this years\u2019 holiday season, and securing more information regarding the retiree\/annuitants will assist in the efforts to hire more retiree\/annuitants as a percentage of the total HCAs hired.\u201d<\/p>\n

For further information, please refer to the following relevant documents:<\/div>\n
MOU Re:\u00a0Peak Season Exception Periods\u00a0<\/em>dated September 28, 2015<\/a><\/div>\n
Q&As for the MOU Re: “Peak\u00a0<\/em>Season\u00a0Exception Periods”\u00a0<\/em>dated November 3, 2015<\/a><\/div>\n
MOU Re:\u00a0Addendum to MOU Re: Peak\u00a0<\/em>Season\u00a0Exception Periods and Questions and Answers Regarding “Peak\u00a0<\/em>Season\u00a0Exception Periods”\u00a0<\/em>dated July 29, 2016.<\/a><\/div>\n

Attachments<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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08\/25\/2017\u00a0–\u00a0The APWU and the USPS recently signed a\u00a0Memorandum of Understanding (MOU),\u00a0RE: Peak Season Exception Periods \u2013 2017 Date Changes,\u00a0modifying the Peak Season (Holiday Season) Exception period for 2017 to \u201censure adequate coverage\u201d and \u201caccommodate customer service.\u201d Peak Season Dates The start of the Peak Season Exception Period will be from Nov. 11, 2017 (Pay Period […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-apwu-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20729","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=20729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20730,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20729\/revisions\/20730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}