From the Federal Business Opportunities website: The United States Postal Service (USPS) is pursuing a National Agreement with a Supplier(s) that has or is capable of developing a comprehensive Medical Provider Organization for conducting all non-work related medical examinations for the USPS. Postal Service offices are located in each of the 50 states plus Puerto […]
The Department of Labor issued the following clarification on the expanded FMLA regulations: Neither the statute nor the regulations restrict the number of parents a child may have under the FMLA. For example, where a child’s biological parents divorce, and each parent remarries, the child will be the “son or daughter” of both the biological […]
Exhaustion of FMLA protected leave is a common problem in the Postal Service. This legal article makes several good points about ADA considerations: The broadened scope of the ADA increases the likelihood that anyone taking FMLA leave for their own serious health condition may also have an ADA protected disability. As a result, it is […]
This a quite a lengthy case so I will try to summarize it with key points: The Postal Service was found to have unlawfully discriminated against Michigan Letter Carrier Barbara Passage on the basis of disability, sex, retaliation for EEO activity in the terms and condition of her employment. Additionally,USPS managers/supervisors failed to reasonably accomodate […]
Postal employees will have more opportunities to take time off work to help family members who are military service members or veterans under new rules mandated by the 2010 National Defense Authorization Act. The law, signed late last year by President Obama, allows employees to take up to 12 weeks of paid or unpaid leave […]