{"id":7047,"date":"2014-02-21T08:23:44","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T13:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=7047"},"modified":"2014-02-21T08:23:44","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T13:23:44","slug":"excessing-job-withholding-due-to-consolidations-on-indefinite-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2014\/02\/21\/excessing-job-withholding-due-to-consolidations-on-indefinite-hold\/","title":{"rendered":"Excessing, Job Withholding Due to Consolidations on \u2018Indefinite Hold\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Union members are sure to breathe a sigh of relief following a recent notice from the Postal Service to the APWU. <a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/4-APWU-Small6.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6492\" alt=\"4-APWU-Small\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/4-APWU-Small6.gif\" width=\"322\" height=\"181\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Excessing related to Area Mail Processing events has been placed on \u201cindefinite hold,\u201d according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apwu.org\/news\/webart\/2014\/14-033-excessingonhold-130220.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Feb. 14 letter<\/a> [PDF] from Postal Service to the APWU. As a result, the Postal Service is now releasing \u201cresidual vacancies\u201d that were being withheld. Residual vacancies are duty assignments that remain vacant after completion of a bidding cycle. Rather than filling the residual vacancies, the Postal Service has been keeping them open to serve as landing spots for employees impacted by plant consolidations.<\/p>\n<p>The Feb. 14 letter follows a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/articles\/2014\/01\/24\/2014-01382\/revised-service-standards-for-market-dominant-mail-products-postponement-of-implementation-date\" target=\"_blank\">Jan. 24 USPS announcement<\/a> that management is postponing implementation of Phase 2 of its latest mail processing consolidation plan, which was slated to begin on Feb. 1. The USPS also delayed implementation of changes to service standards that would have slowed mail delivery.<\/p>\n<p>Each Area will review the withheld vacancies, the USPS letter notes. If the jobs are operationally justified, \u201cthe appropriate contractual process will be used to fill them,\u201d it says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe end of job withholding is good news,\u201d said Director of Industrial Relations Tony D. McKinnon Sr. &#8220;It is important to note that any management proposal to revert residual vacancies must be in carried out in accordance with APWU-USPS Memorandum of Understanding &#8211; Reversion of Withheld\/Residual Vacancies. The Memorandum requires advance notice to the APWU Regional Coordinator and does not allow agreement to revert a residual vacancy by agreement at the local level.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union members are sure to breathe a sigh of relief following a recent notice from the Postal Service to the APWU. Excessing related to Area Mail Processing events has been placed on \u201cindefinite hold,\u201d according to a Feb. 14 letter [PDF] from Postal Service to the APWU. As a result, the Postal Service is now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apwu-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7047","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=7047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7048,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7047\/revisions\/7048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}