Federal employees with a new child will now be able to take up to six weeks of paid leave, according to a presidential memo released Jan. 15. President Obama will also call on Congress to give federal employees an additional six weeks of paid parental leave â raising the total time off for new parents…
January 15, 2015 PMG Pat Donahoe is receiving lots of praise as he prepares to retire Feb. 1 after 39 years with the Postal Service. Sen. Thomas Carper (D-DE), who recently served as chairman of a Senate committee that oversees postal matters, paid tribute to the PMG in a lengthy statement in the Congressional Record…
Web News Article #: 007-2015 01/15/2015 – The APWU joins the nation in celebrating the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who was one of the greatest civil rights leaders of all time and a true champion of labor. Read about Dr. King and the 1968 Memphis Sanitations Workersâ Strike. Find MLK Day of Service opportunities….
By Greg Kocher – January 14, 2015 The mail-processing center on Nandino Boulevard in Lexington will begin closing in June, according to a U.S. Postal Service schedule. The Lexington center is among 82 nationwide that the postal service plans to shutter in a new round of plant closings and consolidations. Mail-sorting operations now performed in…
The current development of attributable city carrier street time costs uses a model that was calibrated with data collected in 2002. There have been a number of important changes to city carrier delivery: Adoption of DPS Reduction in delivered volumes Introduction of FSS Restructuring of the carrier network The Postal Service initiated a comprehensive study…
