National Agreement 2006-2011 - NALC Branch 1100

Article 41.2.D.1
salary level from which originally separated; provided
application for reinstatement or reemployment is made
within six months from the date of recovery. The date
of recovery in the case of disability must be supported
by notice of recovery from the Bureau of Retirement,
Insurance and Occupational Health, Office of
Personnel Management, or the Office of Workers’
Compensation Programs; and in the case of injury on
duty or resignation due to illness, by a statement from
the applicant’s attending physician or practitioner.
2. Letter carriers who enter the military shall not have
their seniority broken or interrupted because of military
service.
3. Letter carriers in leave without pay status while serving
as Union officers on either part-time or full-time
basis shall retain their former seniority and have their
seniority computed as though they had remained in
an active duty status.
4. Letter carriers who are restored to duty in the same
installation after unwarranted or unjustified separation
shall have their seniority computed as though
they had remained in an active duty status.
5. Letter carriers who are changed from a higher level
position within the Letter Carrier Craft to a lower
level position in the Letter Carrier Craft, whether
voluntary or involuntary, shall not have their seniority
broken.
E. Change in Which Seniority is Modified
When mutual exchanges are made between letter carriers from
one installation to another, the carriers will retain their seniority
or shall take the seniority of the other exchangee, whichever
is the lesser.
F. Return From Any Position for Which Selection Was
Based on Best Qualified
Effective July 21, 1978, when an employee, either voluntarily
or involuntarily returns to the Letter Carrier Craft at the same
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