Job-protected Family and Medical Leave does not need to be taken as full-time absences from work. In some circumstances, the employee will request temporarily reduced hours to deal with a medical issue. In others, the employee requests intermittent leave when the unanticipated onset of symptoms makes scheduled leave impossible. Earlier this month in an unpublished…
Late last year, the Postal Service announced that it would not proceed with its controversial plan to sell the Old Chelsea post office at 217 West 18th Street in Manhattan. Now the Postal Service has decided it wants to sell the air rights above the historic building. According to a letter to the New York…
Audit Report – NO-AR-14-010 – 09/05/2014 Background The U.S. Postal Service continues to aggressively cut costs. To that end, it is consolidating the mail processing network to align it with reduced mail volume and a smaller workforce. This report responds to a congressional request from Senator Carl Levin of Michigan to review the Postal Service’s…
(September 9, 2014) WASHINGTON – First class mail processed and delivered by the US Postal Service in the last 10 years is down more than 50 percent, because more and more people are paying their bills and corresponding by e-mail. Conversely, package shipments by the post office are up by double-digits. Those figures come from…
(September 8, 2014) The United States Postal Service has been losing money every year since 2007; in total, nearly $45 billion. One attempt to remedy the situation has been the consolidation of mail processing centers nationwide. Three slated for relocation are in our area: Redding, Eugene, and Eureka. Residents in Eureka are responding to the…
