Yes it pays you up to 75% of your salary. They may find you a job that is making 75% of your salary, you do lose your TSP and your retirement. I left on my own, took a state job so I have good benefits, a retiremet plan and a deffered comp plan (I have a college degree and secretarial skills) so I knew they would have no problem placing me and I would rather pick my own job. I must say it may be less money but it sure is nice to not have a supervisor breathing down my neck, etc.

   if i am not able to go back to work at post office and went to voc rehab does workers comp make up the difference in pay if i make less then what i did at po thx

I have a scheduled redress hearing. I was fired unfairly and management knows this What are some of the positive remedies that can occur? I am a te

Postal Employee Advocate /m53

   And its another 4 months before I got back to this forum to see your answer. Wonder how long before you see this?<g>
   Anyway, the issue in that case was a REDRESS hearing. Management was claiming that REDRESS isn't part of the EEO process, since it occurs before a formal complaint is actually filed. As such, they claimed that they were not required to grant official time to either the complainant or her representative to prepare for the meeting. There appear to be no regulations or rules addressing this issue.
   In a weird quirk of timing, the issue was addressed by the AJ before the companion grievance was heard at arbitration. The AJ ordered the PO to pay the complainant and representative for the time they spent off the clock preparing for the meeting. The companion grievance ended up in front of an arbitrator anyway, because management was still insisting that the AJ's ruling only applied to that case, it didn't change their general belief that REDRESS wasn't part of the process. Unfortunately, the arbitrator declared the case moot (since the grievant had already been paid) and declined to rule on the outstanding issue.
   Haven't had to deal with this same issue since then, but it still remains. Management still insists that REDRESS isn't part of EEO, and they are not required to pay official time for preparing for the meeting.

hey Jr heard of executive order 5396? That also entitles us vets to seek treatment without question. I love pissing management off.

If you are a preference eligible veteran the P.O. MUST provide you with time to attend medical appointments if they are service connected. It is NOT FMLA it is Veterans’ Preference Act; and you can’t be charged AWOL for doing so. Similarly, if you have held the same position for at least one year, and the P.O. tries to remove you, file a Merit Systems Protection Board appeal within 30-days of the effective date of the adverse action. In the M.S.P.B. you can also raise discrimination as an affirmative defense. If you would like more information please feel free to contact me directly.
J.R. Pritchett
postalemployeeadvocate@juno.com

Thanks for your help JAMO. I received a letter last week from the EEO appeals office indicating that my supervisor and Union President were wrong in not allowing me time on the clock to work on my EEO complaint.

They also informed me that my supervisor was notified of this and that I am to be given time on the clock and that doesn't mean having me do it on my 10 minute break.

I also received a letter stating that my "formal" complaint was reviewed and accepted. My hope is that things will go more smoothly from this point on.

Brandon have your pm call human shared services and instruct them that all eeo activity will be done on the clock. Tell your steward that you need time to fill out your file. If not granted file under handbooks and manuals and article 2. Initiate the step 1. Make copies of everything. Wait for an answer then step 2. you know the rest I hope.

Barret I too am a disabled vet. Ol gulf war. I am suffering the same shit here. I have recently won my EEOC hearing and the agency was construed to backpay me for two years and cease and desist the discrimination for disabled veterans and on the same lingo stop the discrimination of fellow veterans. I too have beeen in for the same amount of time. After my award I told the piece of shit that did this, what goes around comes around. Other than that lifes great. Hey what's your rating?

At the start of the Veteran’s Day weekend, the Pensacola postmaster fired me, a 10-point preferenced disabled Vet. I was fired because my disability caused me to miss a significant amount of work. My absence was medically substantiated with documentation provided by my VA physicians. As instructed, I regularly updated my sick-call request with the automated hotline. Yet the postmaster made the preposterous decision to treat my absence as AWOL. I served fifteen years in the Navy without one second AWOL, then that bastion of service known as the post office brands me AWOL, subject to, (in their words), “removal from the Postal Service”. The Pensacola postmaster has a dubious reputation in the USPS. How he figures he can get away with this and retain his job and his self-respect is beyond me. I'm now working on my EEO, and I hope to get my Congressman inquiring into the unemployed mess I find myself in, after 13 years of loyal service to the USPS, and for what? The unmitigated gall of the postmaster to fire a disabled Vet, when thousands of them are returning from Iraq, hoping to find a job with the post office. If they can treat Vets like this without any consequence, or intervention by higher management, then the historic relationship between Vets and the post office has been surreptitiously negated.

Last week I filed a formal EEO complaint. When the EEO office gave me the results of their investigation, my supervisor told them that they consulted with the Union President and he agreed with them as far as only allowing me 10 minutes of break time to work on my complaint! Management also stated that the Union President supported them on the Medical Documentation that they were seeking! I am not sure how that will now affect my complaint.

I am also going to file a complaint with the Department of Labor against the USPS for violating FMLA laws.

Keep them rollin hound, I'm doing it on thier expense as well.

would someone out there know a person by the name of TOM CAST who works for the post office in colorado or chicago or maybe elsewhere...i think he has just retired..would love to get a hold of him... send me info by email to philou67@videotron.ca....i think he worked in the repair parcel department..i am not sure..very important...

Hi William - you really don't need a password for any of PEN. I had to discontinue PEN's other forums due to spam.

To Rick Owens how do I get a password on you new server, tried following the instruction and it keeps coming back for new pass word, thank you