National Award Byars: Challenge to ELM 460 Collection of Debt (2006)
Return to Contract DatabaseAfter examination of the evidence, Arbitrator Byars concluded that the ELM 460 language which provides for the collection of postal debts by the Postal Service in increments greater than 15 percent of an employee’s disposable pay or 20 percent of the employee’s biweekly gross pay per pay period, whichever is lower, violates the National Agreement.