National Association of Postal Supervisors President Louis M. Atkins today applauded Sen. Mark Pryor (AR) and Rep. Gerald E. Connolly (VA-11) for their leadership in introducing legislation that assures fairness to all mid-level managers in the United States Postal Service.
Senator Pryor and Rep. Connolly on April 9 introduced the “Postal Employee Appeal Rights Amendments Act” (S. 686 and H.R. 1431), legislation that extends to mid-level postal employees the right of appeal of significant personnel actions taken against them to the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB). The MSPB is an independent quasi-judicial agency in the Executive Branch that hears the personnel appeals of federal employees and guards the federal merit systems.
Despite Congressional action in 1987 that attempted to confer the right of MSPB appeal to all postmasters, supervisors and managers, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals has narrowly interpreted that appeal right. As a result, challenges of adverse actions by more than 7,500 postal managers have been limited to a hearing only by a higher-level postal official, without recourse to the MSPB as a neutral, third-party adjudicator.
“The legislation introduced by Senator Pryor and Congressman Connolly will correct the outcome under the 1987 law and make clear Congress’ original intent,” NAPS President Atkins said. “It will restore to all postal managers the fairness of impartial review by the Merit Systems Protection Board. No longer will the Postal Service be permitted to serve as both judge and jury.”
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@USPSM. If you don’t want to be treated like management, go back to craft. I know many management outside the post office and they get quite the chuckle when they hear postal management are hourly not salary, gets an overtime premium, an appeals process, and has an association demanding an independent merit board. In the real world when your manager gets fired, they fire everyone associated with that manager except one person who knows the ropes and they only keep that person for a short period. Like I said “Suckas, you got to be kidding me”.
Nevermind, good name by the way because I don’t think you would get it even if it hit you face first and Sucka…..original. My comment to you is that everyone should be afforded appeal rights; craft and management. Just like the craft, there are good employees and slugs. So it goes with management. Not all managers abuse the employees and sit with their feet on the desk. Some of our offices are a team. We succeed together or we fail together but we are in it together because at the end of the day if the USPS fails we will all be in the unemployment line TOGETHER. Why don’t you try a positive attitude and quit slamming the company that 100% of the employees filled an application to get hired and hoped they would?
Suckas, you got to be kidding me.
so, let me see if i got this right. mid-level postal managers are claiming that higher level postal management is a bunch of unethical, untrustworthy slime, and that they therefore need an independent body to review cases where mid-level managers are disciplined. right? sounds accurate to me but i hope the legislation fails. why? well, because mid-level postal management knew when they took the job the lack of ethics and trustworthiness in the united states postal service. so too bad. when you lie down with dogs, you might get fleas fellas.