Resource Management Database (RMD) Settlement

A pre-arbitration settlement (USPS #Q98C-4Q-C 01005505) concerning the Postal Service’s Resource Management Database (RMD) and its web-based enterprise Resource Management System (eRMS). This settlement resolves many of the issues related to RMD/eRMS, including Privacy Act issues, multiple call-in requirements, medical documentation to protect the interests of the Postal Service, and fixed numbers for triggering discipline. The remaining unresolved issues, specifically: management’s right to request the nature of the illness when an employee calls in, FMLA second/third opinion procedures, and medical documentation requirements to substitute paid leave for unpaid intermittent FMLA leave have been appealed to national arbitration.