{"id":641,"date":"2009-12-15T10:21:49","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T15:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=641"},"modified":"2009-12-15T10:21:49","modified_gmt":"2009-12-15T15:21:49","slug":"postal-service-program-for-reassessing-work-provided-to-injured-employees-is-under-way-but-actions-are-needed-to-improve-program-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2009\/12\/15\/postal-service-program-for-reassessing-work-provided-to-injured-employees-is-under-way-but-actions-are-needed-to-improve-program-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Postal Service Program for Reassessing Work Provided to Injured Employees Is Under Way, but Actions Are Needed to Improve Program Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>GAO Study:\u00a0 The Program for Reassessing Work Provided to Injured Postal Employees Is Under Way, but Actions Are Needed to Improve Program Management<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In fiscal year 2008, the United States Postal Service (Service) had about 748,000 employees, representing about 25 percent of all federal employees. These employees also accounted for about 42 percent of all federal traumatic workplace injuries and occupational illnesses (injuries).<\/p>\n<p>According to Service officials, the high rate of employee injuries arises largely from the often physically demanding, industrial, and highly repetitive nature of their work. Some injured employees recover from their injuries quickly and return to work without medically prescribed physical restrictions (medical restrictions), while others require long-term, modified work assignments to accommodate their medical restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>Based on our analysis, there were between 50,000 and 60,000 postal employees, or about 7 to 8 percent of the Service\u2019s workforce, in these assignments at some point during fiscal year 2008, the most recent year for which complete data were available. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Not included in this number<\/span> are employees with workplace injuries who have medical restrictions <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">that preclude them from returning to work for the Service in any capacity<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gao.gov\/new.items\/d1078.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete GAO Study<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: GAO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GAO Study:\u00a0 The Program for Reassessing Work Provided to Injured Postal Employees Is Under Way, but Actions Are Needed to Improve Program Management In fiscal year 2008, the United States Postal Service (Service) had about 748,000 employees, representing about 25 percent of all federal employees. These employees also accounted for about 42 percent of all [&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-641","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\/641","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=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":643,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions\/643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}