After 18 years, the USPS and APWU reached a settlement on the National Reassessment Program (NRP). Meanwhile, the NRP Class Action Lawsuit drags on.
In resolution of these issues the parties agree as follows:
1. The NRP did not redefine or change the Postal Service’s obligation to provide limited duty or rehabilitation assignments for injured employees. The Employee and Labor Relations Manual (ELM) 546 remains applicable to all pending grievances.
2. The Postal Service has not developed new criteria for assigning limited duty. Injured employees will continue to be assigned limited duty, in accordance with the requirements of ELM 546 and C.F.R. Part 353.
3. Employees on existing non-workers compensation light duty assignments made pursuant to Article 13 of the National Agreement will not normally be displaced solely to make new limited duty or rehabilitation assignments unless required by law or regulation. The foregoing sentence does not establish any guarantee of daily work hours for employees in a light duty assignment.