Postal workers not included in the Executive order allowing Feds an extra day off for Christmas
(December 5, 2014) President Barack Obama has issued an Executive order excusing executive branch non-Postal Service employees from duty on Friday, December 26, 2014, with pay and without a charge to leave, except those who, in the judgment of the head of the agency, cannot be excused for reasons of national security, defense, or other essential public need. (See Attachment 1.) For pay and leave purposes, December 26, 2014, will be treated as falling within the scope of statutes and Executive orders governing holidays for Federal employees.
Most federal employees who are excused from duty on December 26th will receive the basic pay they would have received if no Executive order had been issued. An employee who was previously scheduled to take annual leave on December 26th will not be charged annual leave (or any other form of paid leave, compensatory time off, or credit hours). (This policy does not apply to employees who receive annual premium pay for standby duty (5 U.S.C. 5545(c)(1)) or firefighters who are covered by special pay provisions (5 U.S.C. 5545b).) An employee who is required to work nonovertime hours on December 26th is entitled to holiday premium pay (5 U.S.C. 5546(b)).
If an employee has scheduled “use or lose” annual leave on December 26, 2014, and is unable to reschedule that leave for use before the end of the leave year (i.e., January 10, 2015), the leave will be forfeited. When “use or lose” leave is forfeited under these conditions, the law (5 U.S.C. 6304(d)) does not permit restoration of the leave.
OPM advises Postal and contract employees to contact their supervisor (or contract officer) to obtain information on their pay and leave entitlements for December 26th.
Postal Employee schedules on holidays are governed by the Collective Bargaining Agreement which does not include provisions granting employees holidays simply because they have been granted to federal employees. Even though the postal holidays are also days that the federal government recognizes for federal employees, the source of holiday recognition for postal workers is the negotiated agreement.
In previous years when the President signed an Executive Order granting federal employees a day off on Dec. 24 or the day after, unions would request that USPS follow the same spirit of holiday cheer and grant postal employees the day off as well. Postal Employees were granted the day off –but required to use their own leave.
Several year ago APWU said it would address this issue in future rounds of bargaining. But USPS said at the time the cost of closing the Postal Service for a day was estimated to be nearly $175 million.
Read more: OPM memo on December 26 2014 holiday
First off, most of you accuse the President for not granting us an extra day off. What bs. Thirty years at the USPS and no President has granted us the extra day off. So get off Obama’s back. With regards to what someone earlier had said about doing away with some holidays, I have thought the same thing for years now. But not do away, substitute is what I would do. Get rid of President’s Day, MLK Day, and Columbus Day. And not for some BS reason you would think of along the lines of being racial. The three days would be added the Thanksgiving Day (the day after), Christmas Day (the day before), and New Year’s Day (the day before). Hell, combine Memorial Day with Veteran’s day and add to Christmas Day (the day after). It’s either that or just simply add the days without substituting.
Postal workers are only considered federal workers when it is time to contribute to the Federal Campaign Fund.
Of course Obama would sign an Executive order for this!! It means that he and his family can take a trip on Air Force 1 at the expense of the tax payers!! His lovely wife MIchelle is notorious for that.
A very Merry Muslim Christmas to the Obama’s!!!
Greed is overwhelming! You have a lot of holidays and know what was going when you signed on.
We learned it from you ole salty captain,
If I want it off, I will take it off using SL or use or lose. Don’t need no stinking president.
why have the Unions not fought for this when they try to bargain? will guarantee that none of the “union brass” will be working Friday the 26th or Saturday, the 27th but the rest of us will. I’m sure the general public will be waiting in anticipation at their mailboxes those 2 days. looks like we get screwed again
Does not include postal workers that is not fair.
At least pay us double time or something for having to work it.
Yes it would be walking into hell
Yep I did step 2. But like she and I say 2 days off fing gross. Floater day totally happy with
It’s the thought that counts…
Merry Christmas!
“employees of the USPS..should contact their supervisor to obtain information on their pay and leave entitlements for Dec 26th” I read this that if the president gives ALL federal employees the day off and some have to work, those that work are entitled to an additional day off later. Unions should be fighting for this. Don’t hold your breath. I just know the chicken little NRLCA bosses will be off that day and care less about the people who pay their salaries.
A day off on the 26th sounds nice but as anybody who has carried mail for any length of time knows the three day pile up on Saturday would be a real pain in the ass. It isn’t worth it. If I had my way, and nobody asks me, we’d get rid of Columbus Day and President’s Day. Why should we celebrate and shut down the PO for a sanctioned pirate who helped bring European diseases to the Western Hemisphere and paved the way for people like Cortez to wipe out entire civilizations and force their Catholicism on the Mayans and Aztecans?
And we haven’t had any real presidents since Eisenhower, who at least created the interstate system and vastly improved the nation’s infrastructure, guaranteeing jobs and a good standard of living, not to mention warning us (too late as it turned out) of the defense industry turning war into a profit machine. Before him was FDR, THE President’s president. But everybody since then regardless of party was nothing but a game player, and couldn’t possibly have met the status of FDR and his remarkable leadership and intelligence, regardless of what fucking Limbaugh tells his braindead minions. We have been embarrassed, killed and reviled by most of the world thanks to the leadership of everybody since Kennedy, and that is not cause for celebration.
Got that rite!
Get rid of a holiday ~~ MLK comes at the top of the list for me!
FDR created the dependency system that has millions of Americans dependent on the government, no self respect, and destroyed the black family structure.
Preach it Really.! I have been saying the same thing! Just came home from Wal-Mart everyone around me used ACCESS cards to pay for over flowing cart fulls of junk food then pulled out $100 to pay for $20 balance. I’m on a budget of carrier salary & had $50 worth of food for our family of 5 for the next week! It’s SICK!!!
All on the backs of the middle income!!
Having the 26 off for USPS is pointless any way. No loss here….
Just plain ole’ stupid. That’s the stupidest thing I’ve heard in my life. Smh
Pat & Fred
Can we all just work this out with a day off? It would be a great morale booster
to the employees. Even Miss Rhonda needs a day off too! Think hard my friends.
Cronuts
How does taking Friday the 26th help us? We still have to work on Saturday the 27th!
Agree
The postal work week starts on Saturday so what’s your point? It’s simply the stay off the next week.
Why wouldn’t you just enjoy the extra day off. To worry about Saturdays work load is senseless since tomorrow isn’t promised to anyone.
We are only included when it comes to taking away money.
No, he will not. We will be working Saturday as well.
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Thanks Obama.
Always looking after us Postal Workers.
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Yes thank you President Obama. I think this is so wrong that they get an extra day off with pay. We work harder then any one in Congress. Thanks for nothing.
Did you even read the article? He couldn’t include us due to our contracts. You must be a stupidvisor…