This is the first of two checks that employees will receive from the ‘casual in lieu’ settlement. On this check employees will receive their base share and, if they are in the Clerk or Maintenance Crafts, their affected share.
The second check will be issued later in the year, after any and all adjustments are made. The second check will consist of any remaining funds from the two million dollars that were set aside to make any needed adjustments or corrections.
In that every APWU represented employee was affected in one way or another by the misuse of casual employees over such a prolonged period of time one half of the settlement (16.5 million dollars) will be split amongst all APWU represented employees.
Employees are eligible if they have worked a minimum of one year for the Postal Service between September of 1993 and August of 2005. They will be paid $217 for each year they worked a minimum of at least six full months during a year for each year during the violation period (1986 through 2005.)
The ‘base’ share is the result of dividing the allotted amount for this part of the settlement, 16.5 million dollars, by the total number of man-years of all eligible employees.
The ‘affected’ portion of the settlement will go to Clerk and Maintenance Craft employees because those crafts were subjected to the greatest harm by the misuse of casual employees. So, in addition to their ‘base’ share these employees will get a portion of the remaining 16.5 million dollars.
The ‘affected’ portion of the settlement is based on the cumulative number of casual work-hours over the violation period and the number of casual work-hours in each affected craft.
The combined number of casual work-hours for each year of the violation period allowed us to determine the percentage of the violation work-hours worked for each year of the violation period. This allowed us to assign a specific amount of the remaining 16.5 million dollars to be divided between the affected crafts for each year of the violation period based on the severity of the violation for each particular year.
After each year was assigned a monetary amount the percentage of casual work-hours in each specific craft was used to determine how much of a particular years monetary value was awarded to each affected craft. Once that was established, each crafts’ monetary allotment was then divided equally among the number of employees who were eligible to participate in payment for that particular year.
Below is a chart that shows what each craft member was entitled to for every year of the violation period, provided they were eligible for that year.
Fraternally,
Harmon P. Elliott Jr.
President
PHILA PA AREA LOCAL APWU
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Posted: April 25, 2006