A Bucks County couple has filed a federal tort claim against the United States government and a U.S. Postal Service employee over injuries the husband allegedly sustained in a motor vehicle accident with the mail carrier. Gerardo and Shelley Marquez, who reside in Furlong, Pa., are suing the federal government and postal worker Andrew McMasters […]
An applicant rejected for hire as an Electronic Technician, PS-11 was denied the right to visually review his test documents. The U.S. District Court in Pennsylvania wrote: Plaintiff attempts to concoct a “scenario” to circumvent said exemptions. Plaintiff states that he “does dispute that the cited law [by the USPS] totally preclude[s] the Plaintiff’s […]
Postal Supervisor Claimed A Hostile Work Environment aggravated his medical condition and USPS failed to investigate. The following facts are based upon the allegations in John Pell’s amended complaint filed in the United States District Court and information from the EEOC case. Pell is a former employee of the USPS who worked at the Framingham, […]
The problem of USPS ignoring their settlement agreements is a big one. Courts, like the one below, are mandating that unions take their disputes to arbitration before asking for enforcement in court, even when the dispute has already been settled multiple times! Unions have to take their disputes all the way to arbitration or the […]
A Fort Worth federal grand jury indicted a former postal worker and union leader who allegedly defrauded postal employees of more than $225,000. John P. Woods Jr., 68, of Arlington was a U.S. Postal Service employee and elected president of the Fort Worth branch of the National Postal Mail Handlers Union before he was charged […]
The following is PostalReporter’s summary of several cases related to the same issue: Darrell Coburn sued the United States Postal Service claiming that the Privacy Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552a, was violated when records from the file on his administrative complaint of discrimination were disclosed internally to several management employees. USPS was seeking evidence of […]
According to the Court records: Mark Comerford is a male person, over the age of 50 residing in Colorado, but at the time of some of the acts complained of was residing within the area of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Tampa Division, in Manatee County. Comerford has been […]
The following is a modified version of the MSPB case: Based on the results of an investigation, USPS removed the appellant from his position as EAS-17 Supervisor, Distribution Operations, on a charge of failure to follow instructions – unauthorized purchases on his government credit card. USPS listed three specifications: (1) using his assigned government credit […]
Charles Wilcher, a 204B (acting)supervisor from the letter carrier craft, claimed he was “working” on July 5, 2006 when he spent the day with his Postmaster [Margie Flores-Jones]. She was also accused of getting paid for July 5, 2006 even though it was alleged that she did not actually work that day. She was initially […]
The U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, issued a startling decision on June 16, 2010, in Jeunes v. Potter. The Court upheld the removal of a postal employee who “admits that he used profanity during a verbal altercation with a co-worker on October 26, 2007, conduct clearly proscribed by the zero tolerance policy.” The Court […]