National Agreement 2006-2011 - NALC Branch 1100

Article 6
cise of the Employer’s right to lay off employees require the
application of the provisions of Chapter 35 of Title 5, United
States Code, employees covered by that Chapter with less than
three years of continuous civilian federal service will be treated
as “career conditional” employees.
The Employer’s right as established in this Section shall be
effective July 20, 1979.
The following terms as to the employees’ and Employer’s
rights and the rules and procedures to be followed in the
implementation of Article 6 are a part of the September 15,
1978 Final Resolution and shall be final and binding upon the
parties:
A. Coverage
1. Employees protected against any involuntary layoff
or force reduction.
Those employees who occupy full-time, part-time regular
or part-time flexible positions in the regular work
force (as defined in Article 7) on September 15, 1978,
are protected against layoff and reduction in force during
any period of employment in the regular work force
with the United States Postal Service or successor
organization in his or her lifetime. Such employees are
referred to as “protected employees.”
Other employees achieve protected status under the provisions
of A.3 below.
2. Employees subject to involuntary layoff or force
reduction.
Except as provided in A.1 and A.3, all employees who
enter the regular work force, whether by hire, transfer,
demotion, reassignment, reinstatement, and reemployment
on or after September 16, 1978, are subject to layoff
or force reduction and are referred to as “non-protected
employees.”
3. Non-protected employees achieving protected status.
(a) A non-protected employee achieves protected status
upon completion of six years of continuous service
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