Open Season for FEGLI?
Is there an open season for increasing dependent coverage amounts on dependent life insurance?
Day: October 12, 2014
Postal Service calling on retired employees to help during holiday season
(October 12, 2014) NEW ORLEANS — Thanksgiving and Christmas are just weeks away, and postal offices in New Orleans are looking for some additional manpower from former employees. Officials with the United States Postal Service announced this week that retired city carriers can temporarily return to their jobs during the peak-mailing season. According to the…
EEOC: Notice of Disability Lawsuit Against Federal Express Ground Package System, Inc.
(October 10, 2014) The United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, (the EEOC) has sued FedEx Ground Package System, Inc. (FedEx Ground), alleging that FedEx Ground violated the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, as amended, (the ADA) by discriminating against current and former deaf and hard-of-hearing Package Handlers and applicants for the Package Handler position,…
Third Bush on the Right: USPS Grocery Deliveries Would Need Lots of TLC from Carriers
Mail carrier was recently named the most endangered job in the U.S., but the U.S. Postal Service seems to have other ideas. Its plan to deliver groceries to households in major metropolitan areas is the latest among several strategic moves that would mean more work for employees who handle the “last mile” of delivery. The…