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January 2012

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Scholarships Available to PMAPWU Members

Pennsylvania AFL-CIO Scholarship

Union Plus Scholarship

APWU Vocational Scholarship

The APWU E.C. Hallbeck Memorial Scholarship

You may also visit the APWU's Scholarship Programs webpage where the various scholarships are discussed.

John T. Boxler Scholarship

Patrick McShane Memorial Scholarship



pushpin[January 3rd]

USPS Reinstates Relocation Leave for Executive and Administrative Schedule Employees
via Handbook F-15-A Revision

The US Postal Service noted in last week's Postal Bulletin that it has reinstated the practice of allowing managers up to 5 days of paid leave when they are relocating to another assignment.

"Effective September 19, 2011, relocation leave for eligible executive and administrative schedule (EAS) employees has been reinstated. Handbook F-15-A, Relocation Policy — Non-Bargaining Executive and Administrative Schedule Employees, is revised to include relocation leave for eligible EAS employees."

The USPS had eliminated the relocation leave benefit in 2009 in response to an OIG report that was highly critical of the agency's relocation practices, and including a case where the USPS "paid over $1.9 million to relocate a vehicle maintenance program analyst intrastate. The majority of this cost came from a $1.7 million loss on the sale of this employee's home."

Here is the text of the revised F-15 employee travel handbook:

"EAS employees are eligible to receive paid time off generally for the packing, delivering, and unpacking of household goods or at their manager's discretion as long as it is related to relocation. Employees are authorized to use up to 5 days (8-hour increments) of relocation leave. These days do not have to be consecutive. This leave is also available to the employee's spouse, if he or she is also employed by the Postal Service. Relocation leave is charged to Code 080 in TACS."



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