NRP Settlement Clears Path for Hundreds of Held Grievances

The NALC and Postal Service have settled a national level grievance filed on the Postal Service’s application of their National Reassessment Process (NRP). NRP is a management program that was devised to reassess all current limited duty job offers and to reassess how future limited duty job offers are made. The NALC, from the outset, has maintained that NRP cannot compromise injured employees’ rights under 546 of the ELM.

As a result of many months of negotiations, the party’s three-part settlement addresses all of the NALC’s contentions in this grievance and solidifies the contractual rights of affected letter carriers. The parties agreed that NRP does not change management’s obligations to provide limited duty to injured employees and it does not change the provisions of ELM 546. The parties also agreed that NRP does not create new criteria for assigning limited duty and that light duty carriers will not normally be displaced solely to make new limited duty or rehabilitation assignments unless required by law.

The settlement will allow for the continued processing of grievances that have been held in abeyance pending the outcome of this national case. For more information contact your NBA.

The NALC will continue to monitor NRP and will continue to require contractual compliance as management moves forward with this process.

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