SUBJECT: Seniority Rights of a Full-time Employee Who Elects To Change to a Part-time Flexible in Lieu of Reassignment:
When a full-time employee elects to change to a part-time flexible in the craft or occupational group in lieu of involuntary reassignment, such employee should be placed at the top of the part-time flexible roster. The employee takes all of his seniority with him upon the change and accumulates additional seniority as a part-time flexible, which seniority goes with him upon any later conversion back to the full-time workforce.
If a full-time employee, junior to the employee who elected to change to part-time flexible discussed above, is excessed or involuntarily reassigned to another installation, then, this junior employee has a retreat right in accordance with the requirements of Appendix A, Section II, Clerk Craft, Subsection c.5.b(6). The senior employee who changed to part-time flexible has no "retreat right" to the full-time workforce, but, as is the case with all part-time flexibles, the employee must wait until the Employer converts him to a full-time vacancy. However, the senior employee, who opted to change to part-time flexible in lieu of reassignment, would take all his seniority with him upon a later conversion to a full-time vacancy. This employee would be slotted into the full-time rester where appropriate and thus would be senior to any junior employee who had returned to the installation as a result of exercising his retreat rights.
Document Type: Postal Service Directive
APWU National Grievance Number: None