APWU 480-481 Area Local

A New Remedy For Forced Overtime & NTFT’s

We all know as of November 23, 2011 management can no longer force any employees not on the overtime desired list. So the other day I received an email about the proper remedy for stewards to request when non-otdl employees are forced to work overtime, where there are employees working in NTFT assignments in the same functional area. We are now supposed to ask for a make whole remedy in the form of administrative leave instead of the old remedy of a 50% premium.

As a matter of fact I just settled a grievance before I got this email under the old remedy. An employee not on the otdl was forced to come in 2 hours early, and I asked for her to be paid an extra 50%, plus I asked for otdl to be maxed out. I settled for the non-otdl employee to get 50% and I settled hour for hour for hour and got 2 otdl people 1 hour each at the overtime rate of pay. The new remedy would have been to get the non-otdl person 2 hours of administrative leave to be taken at their option, and also max the otdl and you can settle for hour for hour. The reasoning for this is we have already won this in arbitration because the arbitrators have agreed with the union and stated that “the employees not on the otdl have indicated that their off duty time is highly valued. By not placing themselves on the otdl they indicate it is more highly valued than extra pay. While they received pay, that pay had a lower priority in their desires than time off work.”

So basically they are saying that management deprived them of their time off, and we should be asking for it back. Management will still argue that it should be a 50% premium based on the 2007 jcim, but that language does not apply for any violations of the NTFT memo.

Kevin Osak
Clerk Craft Director
480-481 Area Local

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The 480-481 Area Local maintains offices at 810 Livernois in Ferndale, Michigan 48220 and represents all APWU members in the following USPS installations: Almont, Allen Park, Anchorville, Belleville, Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills, Brighton, Carleton, Chelsea, Clarkston, Clawson, Davisburg, Dearborn, Dearborn Heights, Fair Haven, Flat Rock, Garden City, Grosse Ile, Hartland, Hazel Park, Highland, Keego Harbor, Lake Orion, Marine City, Marysville, Michigan Metroplex, Milan, Milford, Mt. Clemens, New Baltimore, New Boston, New Haven, New Hudson, Novi, Oxford, Pickney, Plymouth, Port Huron, Richmond, Rochester, Rockwood, Romeo, Romulus, Royal Oak, South Lyon, South Rockwood, St. Clair, Sterling Heights, Trenton, Union Lake, Utica, Walled Lake, Warren, Washington, Waterford, Wayne, Westland, Willis, Wixom, Wyandotte and Yale.

The Union office is normally open from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM Monday through Friday and the telephone numbers are (248) 543-3262/3263/3264. The 24 hour number is (248) 543-3262. FAX: (248) 543-2750.