{"id":24570,"date":"2018-10-19T09:06:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T14:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=24570"},"modified":"2018-10-19T09:06:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T14:06:17","slug":"update-significant-payroll-issue-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2018\/10\/19\/update-significant-payroll-issue-identified\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Significant Payroll Issue Identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"news-date-inline\"><span class=\"date-display-single\">APWU News &#8211; 10\/18\/2018<\/span>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apwu.org\/news\/web-news-article\/significant-payroll-issue-identified\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The previously announced payroll issue<\/a>\u00a0caused by a faulty computer program and affected 88,782 APWU represented bargaining unit employees in the Clerk, Maintenance, Motor Vehicle Service and Support Services crafts.<\/p>\n<p>The Postal Service has informed the APWU that management will begin to do manual pay adjustments beginning October 18, 2018, starting with the employees who are missing the most pay. Management\u2019s goal is to have the majority of the pay adjustments done in time to be included on the next pay check \u2013 dated November 2, 2018 \u2013 with the remainder being completed by the November 16, 2018 pay date. However, there is no guarantee that will be accomplished.<\/p>\n<p>We are asking that all employees examine their paystubs and verify that they were paid correctly for both regular, leave and overtime pay. Previously, management had told the APWU that they would not be doing emergency salary advances for employees who were shorted pay. After multiple discussions and insistence from the APWU leadership, the USPS announced that they will be giving salary advances to any employee shorted pay who requests an advance.<\/p>\n<p>Employees must request the advance from their immediate supervisor.\u00a0The APWU was notified of the following\u00a0<span class=\"file\"><a title=\"10_18_18_Mandatory_StandUp_Payroll.pdf\" href=\"https:\/\/www.apwu.org\/sites\/apwu\/files\/resource-files\/10_18_18_Mandatory_StandUp_Payroll.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" type=\"application\/pdf; length=36417\">stand-up talk<\/a><\/span>\u00a0informing the employees of this option.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last\">If you seek a pay advance and are denied this option, please immediately contact your local or state union representative.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7249\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1aa-APWU-small.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"182\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APWU News &#8211; 10\/18\/2018\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0The previously announced payroll issue\u00a0caused by a faulty computer program and affected 88,782 APWU represented bargaining unit employees in the Clerk, Maintenance, Motor Vehicle Service and Support Services crafts. The Postal Service has informed the APWU that management will begin to do manual pay adjustments beginning October 18, 2018, starting with the [&hellip;]<\/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-24570","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\/24570","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=24570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24571,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24570\/revisions\/24571"}],"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=24570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}