Rep. Darrell Issa (D-CA), chair of the House oversight committee, is drafting a new stripped-down postal bill that he says tracks the Obama Administration’s primary proposals for overhauling the Postal Service. (It doesn’t, at least not entirely.) Issa could introduce his new measure as early as next week, after Congress returns from its two-week Easter/Passover […]
Senate Committee Approves Postal Reform Measure A Senate panel on Thursday approved sweeping bipartisan legislation that would overhaul Postal Service finances and operations, as well as broaden the personnel appeal rights of non-supervisory managerial employees. By a 9-1 vote, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee approved a substitute version of S. 1486, the […]
Senate lawmakers are preparing to mark-up postal reform legislation at a meeting of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs this Wednesday, January 29, at 10 am ET. (You will be able watch the mark-up live here.) The Committee will work from a new version of S. 1486, the Postal Reform Act, originally […]
PAY FREEZE FOR EAS EMPLOYEES COMES TO AN END The Postal Service has released a directive outlining a 1% salary increase for non-bargaining employees effective on Saturday, January 25, 2014. In addition, PFP ratings will apply for FY 2014 salary determinations and the suspension of the employee awards program has been lifted. The Postal Service […]
The bipartisan budget agreement, approved by the House of Representatives on Thursday and expected to be considered by the Senate this coming week, will affect postal employees in at least four ways. First, it will require new (and only new) federal and postal employees to contribute more toward their retirement benefits. Current employees will not […]
Letter outlines the need for the USPS to follow suit with the rest of the Federal Government. NAPS has sent a letter to the United States Postal Service outlining the need to end the EAS pay freeze and grant the same pay raise that is to be given to those federal employees currently on the […]
NAPS Leg/Reg Update – September 25, 2013 The Senate postal oversight committee on Thursday will hold its second hearing in two weeks on postal reform legislation, S. 1486, introduced in early August by the panel’s top Democrat and Republican, Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) and Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK).
The National Association of Postal Supervisors, representing over 28,000 active and retired supervisory and managerial employees of the United States Postal Service, supports the passage of comprehensive postal reform that ends the financial crisis afflicting the Postal Service and provides a foundation for future stability and growth. NAPS believes that comprehensive postal reform should embrace […]
Updates regarding NAPS/USPS dialogue regarding plant re-ranking (Updated 9/6/13) In the last few days, the Postal Service’s plan to re-rank mail processing plants has become public knowledge despite their best efforts to keep the information confidential until September 6, 2013. The confidential nature of the discussions between NAPS and USPS Labor Relations was due to […]
From the National Association of Postal Supervisors: NAPS has signed on to a letter from the Federal Postal Coalition that urges members of the House of Representatives to reject a package of four anti-Federal Employee pieces of legislation due to hit the House floor this week.