Vacancies in full-time Grade One assignments, including Reserve Regular assignments, are available forĭuration of Hold-Down. Full-time reserve letter carriers, full-time flexible schedule letter carriers, unassigned full-time carriers, part-time flexible carriers, and city carrier assistants may allĭuty Assignments eligible for Opting. This procedure, called “opting,” allows carriers to “hold-down” vacant duty assignments of regular carriers who are on leave or otherwise unavailable to workįull-time reserve, full-time flexibles and unassigned full-time letter carriers may opt on vacancies of fewer than five days where there is an established local past practice (Article 41.2.B.3).Įligibility for opting. Article 41.2.B.3, 41.2.B.4 and 41.2.B.5 provide a special procedure for exercising seniority in filling temporary It is not an “unanticipatedĬircumstance” when the regular carrier, whose route the Carrier Technician is working, comes in and works his or her non-scheduled day. Management may not move the Carrier Technician off the string entirely, unless the Local Memorandum of Understanding so provides or “unanticipated circumstances” arise. (See the explanation of out-of-schedule pay under Article 8.4.) However, if appropriate advance notice of a schedule change is given, the carrier receives out-of-schedule pay instead. If a Carrier Technician is moved to another route on the string with a different starting time, he/she still retains and is still entitled to be paid for the hours of his/her regular schedule. That day for the purposes of Article 41.1.C.4 and the application of the overtime provisions of Article 8.5.
If a Carrier Technician is moved to another route on the string, that route becomes the carrier’s assignment on Working in the regular rotation to another route on the Carrier Technician’s string.
In the absence ofĪny Local Memorandum of Understanding provisions or binding past practice concerning this issue (Article 5), management has discretion to move a Carrier Technician off the assignment he or she is
The five routes on a Carrier Technician’s string or group which constitute a full-time duty assignment are normally carried in the posted sequence.
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