{"id":28249,"date":"2020-02-22T11:12:33","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T16:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=28249"},"modified":"2020-02-22T11:12:33","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T16:12:33","slug":"nalc-and-usps-have-mutually-agreed-to-postpone-a-national-level-grievance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2020\/02\/22\/nalc-and-usps-have-mutually-agreed-to-postpone-a-national-level-grievance\/","title":{"rendered":"NALC and USPS have mutually agreed to postpone a national-level grievance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the NALC<\/em><\/p>\n<p>2\/21\/20 &#8211; NALC and USPS have mutually agreed to postpone a national-level grievance regarding the delay in implementing Arbitrator Goldberg\u2019s Award in Case No. Q15C-4Q-C 17697250 which was issued August 6, 2018. This agreement (<a href=\"http:\/\/mseries.nalc.org\/M01908.pdf\">M-01908<\/a>) provides that the parties will postpone this case pending the disposition of civil action 18-cv-02553, United States Postal Service vs. American Postal Workers Union, AFL-CIO (the Hatch Act award vacatur case).<\/p>\n<p>In the interim, letter carriers who wish to take Leave Without Pay (LWOP) for the purpose of being released to work on a partisan political campaign may request personal LWOP in accordance with Section 514.4(a) of the Employee and Labor Relations Manual (ELM).<\/p>\n<p>As stated in ELM 514.22, the granting of personal LWOP is a matter of administrative discretion &#8220;based on the needs of the employee, the needs of the Postal Service, and the cost to the Postal Service.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6526\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/3-NALC-News-Small4.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"214\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the NALC 2\/21\/20 &#8211; NALC and USPS have mutually agreed to postpone a national-level grievance regarding the delay in implementing Arbitrator Goldberg\u2019s Award in Case No. Q15C-4Q-C 17697250 which was issued August 6, 2018. This agreement (M-01908) provides that the parties will postpone this case pending the disposition of civil action 18-cv-02553, United States [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-nalc-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28249","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=28249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28250,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28249\/revisions\/28250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}