USPS National Reassessment Process for Injured on Duty Workers Goes Nationwide in January
by Gary Neuharth -President-Bismarck-Mandan APWU Area Local #349 (via 21cpw.com)
I have been informed that United States Postal Service’s National Reassessment Process for limited duty employees is going nationwide in January, 2007. Pilot sites for NRP were NY Metro, San Diego, and Western, NY. National APWU apparently has been briefed. The USPS Area Managers will be rolling out their plan of action to USPS Districts very soon.
The USPS reassessment process will be reviewing cases of 33,707 employees whom are currently on rehabilitation / limited duty assignments. This process will determine which employees can return to available work, and who qualifies in terms of OWCP compensation. It is obvious that USPS is seriously looking at compensation eligibility.
USPS team members include senior operations manager, labor relations personnel, legal personnel, manager of injury compensation, NRP injury compensation leader, and medical personnel. It would be a good idea for APWU leaders to prepare for the USPS action if you represent employees currently on light duty. I suspect the USPS methods are to remove as many USPS employees from OWCP compensation as possible, and get employees back to work. Unfortunately, many very deserving employees will be run through the wringer, and stressed out by this process. These injured postal workers have rights, and APWU must insure that USPS follows procedures and regulations set forth in our nation’s laws.
I doubt you will find this reassessment process friendly. It comes with prescibed distrust by management of any injured employee.
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December 18th, 2006 at 9:11 pm
Sadly he is correct. The 6 actually injured out of 33,707 will be put through the wringer like the 33,701 slug fakers.
December 19th, 2006 at 4:57 am
Chuckles, I think your estimation, of 6, may be a little high. I have a hard time believing, that after 5 or 6 years, that these slugs cannot get better. But I bet they will now! Ha Ha!
December 19th, 2006 at 1:55 pm
Hey chuckles and judge, I hope your dogs DIE
December 19th, 2006 at 2:25 pm
It’s about time. Get them back to work or off they go into the wild blue yonder….
December 19th, 2006 at 3:32 pm
I’ve never had a serious OJI, but I’ve worked with folks that have. I’ve witnessed the hostility and indifference directed to those that have. I’ve know a few slackers too, but there are ways to identify them, (should the PO really want to). Instead, they, and it appears many of you that post on this blog, want to take the lazy way out and judge all injured coworkers like their bosses do. Shame!
December 19th, 2006 at 9:33 pm
Surprised, but not surprised. It is sad that usps has found a way to throw injured workers out to pasture. There is no stopping them, they are fixated on doing so, and are going to continue to move forward. So usps will continue to abuse their employees, and when they get injured, they will know how to show them the door faster. Things will only continue to get worse before they get better, but will they get better??????
December 19th, 2006 at 9:38 pm
Chuckles and Judge, you seem like a couple of arrogant, immature dumba@@es, who have nothing better to do than put others down to make yourselves feel better/superior.
December 20th, 2006 at 12:12 pm
They could farm me out to anyone just as long as they make up the salary difference without healthcare. If I could make 45K a year without the satchel I’d say I’ve gone to heaven. Go Tricare!!! Hahahahaha!!!!
December 21st, 2006 at 1:20 am
Mete,
You know nothing about postal workers. You don’t even know what their salary is by the look of your low intelligence.
December 21st, 2006 at 12:13 pm
My low intelligence………..I’ve been a Letter Carrier for 17 years and yes I do a little about the salary…..considering I’m Step O. Now Chris…you’re a clerk meaning if I’m hurt or disabled….I become a clerk. Hell anyone can be a clerk…..so you do your clerk things and I’ll keep carrying mail.
December 22nd, 2006 at 1:12 am
It seems to me Management, as if they have not already done so! Have once again been sucessful in ther devisive (SP) ways. Divide and Conquer is the name of the game. I have 34 years of hard working service and sustained injury as a result. Walk in the shoes of those who have been injured stop all the judgement. Even Unions I have paid dues too for the entire time have walked away and turned ther back. Local Representatives now that is something go into and investigative interview and they do not say a word on your behalf. They are a sistemick (SP) part of the problem. What happen to the days of harm to one is harm to all. There more of use than them we need to act that way. If you beleave for one minute that it stops injured people you are fooling your self. Theres talk of no more PTF”s in the new contract “GUESS WHAT ” no hiring so whats the big deal. In fact they continue to diminish the work force and bring in more casuals who is getting SCREWED. Finally were iam employed the PTF’s have been maximized for several years,according to the contract I am aware of MAXIMIZATION = CONVERSION TO REGULAR IF THE UNION WOULD DO THE JOB OF PURSUEING THIS FLAGRANT VIOLATION PTF’S WOULD BE REGULARS WITH QUITE A LaRGE SOME OF BACKPAY FOR HOLIDAYS AND THE LIKE. HOWEVER in leu of litigation against management we have agreed on turning some regular buy Dec 2007! Oh yes lets not forget accessing while casuals run amock we are displaced and you claim it stops at injured employee’s!!!!! WAKE UP SMELL THE COFFEE GET THAT UNION OFF THERE DEAD ASS BAND TOGETHER AND MAKE THE CHANGE. DURING LOCAL ELECTIONS PUT PEOPLE IN THERE WHOM ARE GOING TO LOOK OUT FOR YOUR INTEREST AND STOP HANDING MANAGEMENT ALL OF USE UP ON THE GOLDEN PLATTER !!!!!!! IN TRUE SOLIDARITY FOR EVERY WORKING SOUL IN THE POST OFFICE NONE ARE IMMUNE TO THE PLIGHT OF JOBLESSNESS BY THE BAFFOONS THAT MAKE THE DECISIONS EVEN LOW AND MID-LEVEL MANAGEMENT.
December 22nd, 2006 at 1:52 pm
Anonymous……..well said!!
December 26th, 2006 at 6:54 pm
Just wondering how this will affect a carrier who injured his knee, couldn’t work, became a 204b, eventually becoming the POOM. Are they going to walk him out too? I doubt it!
December 26th, 2006 at 9:32 pm
in my office i see a nazi/jew type of biasness towards “injured employees”, it is sad that there is that kind of mentality, people judging others and not being kind and understanding
so if the person is not doing the job that they were hired for, should they be kicked out, light duty, and or with limitations? i think not, if they can do a majority of their job (bid),and are trying to do their best, they should be able to stay around, just my opinion especially when they got injured on the job
December 30th, 2006 at 7:43 pm
You know listening to all these people on this website talk so terribly about injured people makes me wonder where this nation is heading to. Its heading back to the vietnam era when people put down soldiers who gave a limb or got hurt while serving their country. These people almost sound like Saddam and the way he would kill his own people just to prove a point. Its terrible to listen to all the demeaning remarks on this website about the IODs. Im one of them and I hurt my back delivering mail and falling on a icy road. I have multiple back problems that just dont heal on their own and the doctor dont want to operate due to making it only worse. Now I was making 46 K a year so people think that it is so easy to take disability retirement. I averaged between netting 1400-1700 every two weeks and now I will do good to bring that home a month under disability retirement. Why do people think that people should be punished for being made to do their jobs in such unsafe circumstances and getting hurt for the rest of their life. Once you severely hurt your back and doesnt completely heal and Im a young guy who loved carrying mail for 13 years. Now my whole life has changed. This is like saying that if you are driving a car and a drunk hits you and sustain the same injuries for the rest of you life that the drunk person shouldnt have to pay because it is your fault for being out in your car on the road at that time. That is what the post office is saying. People wake up and realize that the post office has to assume responsibility for its actions. You cant expect to put people in harms way without facing the reproccussions of those choices. If that is the case there will be no more safe jobs because management can make all its employees do anything without any care to safety and noone wants to live that way.
January 3rd, 2007 at 5:21 pm
THE TIME HAS COME, AND HOPEFULLY, THE SHOWROOM DUMMIES WILL BE SEPERATED FROM THE REAL MCCOYS! IF YOU ARE REALLY HURT, THEN YOU HAVE NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT,,,BUT, UNFORTUNATELY, THERE ARE MANY FAKERS OUT THERE WHO RUIN IT FOR EVERYONE, AND THAT IS WHO IS BEING TARGETED, AND THE FAKERS OUTWEIGH THE HONEST ONES! BRING THIS PROGRAM ON, AND CLEAN HOUSE OF ALL THE DEADBEAT SLUGS WHO ARE HELL BENT ON RIDING ON THE HARD WORK OF THOSE OF US WHO ARE HONEST AND DO OUR ASSIGNED DUTIES! THIS PROGRAM IS GENIOUS! LET IT ROLL ROLL ROLL!!
January 3rd, 2007 at 9:17 pm
Yeah it roll roll roll until Im the one that falls falls falls rite latina. Remember what is good for the goose is also good for the gander. Its always better to be forgiving to others because one day you may be part of the others. No matter who is out of work hurt or not you have to work anyway so what do they have to do with you doing your job or not. I understand there is slack to be taken up but everyone gets paid overtime for that slack so its not like people are getting ripped off by IODs. Management is trying to downsize now anyway so you better get us to it because it may be a perfectly healthy person that gets removed next and you have to take up the slack of downsizing. Everything in life is not black and white.
January 5th, 2007 at 5:21 pm
My idea about this is not novel nor enlightning. I just have compassion for those that are actually hurt. Those that are not hurt, throw them out. If people want to play the games, they must pay the price. However as we all know, management will not separate the ligits from the non-ligits thus harming the career of someone that never wanted to get hurt.
I am a diabetic with arthritis. Stairs kill me, yet I go to work every day in pain and end the day in worse pain. When I get home I just sit down, because I can not do much. I just think people could do more if they tried. I told my Postmaster that if I went on FMLA, I would end up not working anymore.
People are soft now days they get a headache and they want to go home. Four more years and I can go home for good at 62.
People should be happy they have a job, the money we make is to good to try and beat the system.
God Bless
Frank
January 7th, 2007 at 6:23 pm
I agree Frank but as in my condition the doctor will not release me to go back to work because if I get worse I could become paralized and he is scared he will be sued for malpractice. Im very young and I hate the idea that I will probably loose my job after all it said and done. I have kept working since I first got hurt three years ago and in doing so my supervisor kept making my job harder and harder by changing my route until now I cant work at all. The post office will drain everything out of you and make you work so hard that you only get worse and to the point you cant work anymore. So I guess you can say I was rewarded for my hard work and persistence.
January 8th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
HEY SNAILMAN, READ MY POST AGAIN…APPARENTLY, YOU ARE OUT OF TOUCH WITH REALITY, BUT YOU HAVE A FIRM GRASP OF THE OBVIOUS….TALK TO ANYONE WHO IS ANYTHING IN THIS BUSINESS, AND THEY WILL AGREE, SOMETHING HAS TO BE DONE. 33,000 INJURED, AND HOW MANY OF THEM DO YOU THINK ARE ACTUALLY SO HURT THEY CAN’T EVEN DO THEIR JOBS?i AM NOT A GRUNT LIKE YOU, AND I HAVD SEEN THE NUMBERS, PRODUCTIVITY, AND FINANCIAL, AND THEY ARE MASSIVE. YOU MISSED THE CRUX OF MY POST, BUT I AM NOT SURPRISED, YOU ARE THE TYPE OF BLEEDING HEART NIMROD WHO SUPPORTS ILLEGAL ALIENS, AND FORGET THE FINANCIAL BURDEN THEY IMPOSE ON US, AND OUR SYSTEM,,,,FRAUDING FAKING INJURED EMPLOYESS ARE NOT THAT FAR REMOVED FROM THAT SITUATION, BECAUSE, THEY KNOW DAMN WELL THEY CAN WORK, BUT THEY COME TO WORK AND SIT AROUND AND DO NOTHING, THEY ARE NOT PRODUCING….WE DON’T HIRE AND PAY PEOPLE TO COME TO WORK AND SEE WHAT THEY CAN DO FOR 8 HOURS,,EVERYONE IS ACCOUNTABLE, BUT WHEN YOU HAVE 33K PEOPLE SITTING AROUND NOT PRODUCING, THEN YOU HAVE A MASSIVE PROBLEM THAT NEEEDS TO BE DEALT WITH! AS I WROTE, (AND IT WENT RIGHT OVER YOUR NARROW HEAD), IF YOU ARE TRULY INJURED, YOU HAVE NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT, IF YOU ARE FAKING AND FRAUDING, THEN, YOU HAD BETTER BE PREPARED TO BE CALLED TO THE CARPET! NOW, READ MY POST AGAIN, PULL YOUR HEAD OUT FOR ONCE, AND TRY TO COMPREHEND IT..I DOUBT YOU WILL, OR CAN…..AND IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT, THAT’S YOUR PROBLEM, SO GET OVER IT…..
January 8th, 2007 at 5:04 pm
Yeah the problem with this program, as if you really knew what it was about, is that it WILL hurt everyone hurt on the job whether they are fakers or not. It will not seperate the two. I have read indeptly about this program and it is to rid all IODs from the post offices responsibility. All people will loose their health benefits because of their injuries. People think the post office shouldnt be accountable for its actions but in my particular case the supervisor tried to make herself look goood by sending carriers out in the ice to deliver mail. Take in mind I said Ice not snow. No matter what experience you have driving and walking you cant control a vehicle on a 3 inch slabb of ice. Afterwards she knew I had back and neck problems then she changed a riding section on my route into a mile long parknloop with buisnesses and I had to carry a heavy satchel which only aggravated my situation. The doctors asked her to give me a pull cart for that section and she said no and now I have gotten so bad that I cant even pick up anything over a certain weight or I could become paralized. See its not that I wasnt willing to work it was that my supervisor didnt want me to work. I mean I was carrying my own route and only asked for a cart to help take the load off my back. Her unwillingness to work with me has brought me to this point but yet Im thrown in the same category as all other IODs and that is what this program does. All these people putting down IODs are going to face the same scrutiny when it happens to them and GOD help them if they have a family like me. I dont care for peoples compassion in my case I just want people to use common sense and realize that anything can happen on a job site and anyone at anytime can get hurt at no fault of their own. It might be wise on your behalf to think about this before you open your mouth or judge people because what goes around also comes around.
January 9th, 2007 at 8:25 am
Latina, long time, no see! Let’s hope this show gets on the road, REAL QUICK! I love reading all of these lazy crybabies, suddenly worried about their jobs! You scammers need to get off your butts, and back to your bids. Tell the truth, and shame the devil!! yee ha, NRP RULES!!
January 9th, 2007 at 9:01 am
You are right on, 1buc. The post office has put up with these weasels, for long enough! This is going to be fun. I hope they burn all of them! Lousy, faking, no-good bums.
January 9th, 2007 at 11:36 pm
1buc hey how are ya! good 2 c ya! well, it looks like the show will go on after all….they are rollin’ this monsta out soon, and bringing to the forefront, all the fakers and lazy frauders who have been ridin the pine all these years with their little sore elbows, broken fingernails, toenails, and other suspicious injuries..I expect to see a wave of miracle healings take place in the near future.This will free up alot of money for us, and possibly pave the way for early outs in the near future! happy new year to you 1buc and keep in touch! latina
January 10th, 2007 at 4:39 am
That’s great!– And I will tell you what else is great–IT’S GREAT TO BE A FLORIDA GATOR!!
January 10th, 2007 at 10:14 am
gators definitely kicked some can in that game! i was for them too, but my team is THE CRIMSON TIDE!!! ROLL TIDE ROLL!! HEY 1BUC, read the post by the sniffling snailman, who thinks the nrp will effect all of us..hahahahaha!!! not so, i take care of my body, mentally and physically! i will never get hurt, and this program will not effect me in any way, i agree with it 100 percent, it is necessary for the future and vitality of our workforce! roll nrp roll!!!
January 10th, 2007 at 3:59 pm
Mailman– So what do you suggest, that the postal service does, about this ridiculous number of IOD’s? Maybe they should just let these scammers “get away” with milking the system, for the rest of their careers! Surely, you are not naive enough, to believe that people can pull this crap forever. Your anger should be directed at the people that are faking it, not at the ones, that are tired of seeing it! If and when the NRP happens, you will see a lot of miracle healings, just like Latina says. Then, what would you think of these people,….. let me guess, it was just a coincidence, that they got better, when they found out that they would be in the private sector, right?
January 10th, 2007 at 8:27 pm
mailman: You are in the wrong forum if you want a sympathetic ear fron anti-hate-injured worker people. This forum has ibuc and latina-time, two a@@-wipes that will never care about anybody but themselves. They both, with there same names, have been writing anti-hate-injured people crap at other posts for a long while. They will never change, just like you and I won’t change. They will continue to be aholes and we will always be better than them because we have more heart, we are not a@@holes like they are.
January 10th, 2007 at 10:07 pm
great post 1buc! telling it like it is as we always do! these bleeding heart crybabies don’t understand anything at all..no matter what they think, this program will roll on! 33,700 injured employees in the post office…absolutely ridiculous! what if they were in the private sector? they would not have ridden the pine for this long. well, looks like the ride is over, and it is about time! no one ever considers the impact fakers have on this whole situation, and that is the reason it is happening! if there were’nt a problem, then, perhaps , it would’nt have…ROLL NRP ROLL ROLL ON!!! round ‘em up, move ‘em out! yeeehah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! its latina time y’all!
January 11th, 2007 at 5:02 am
Thanks Latina, but that moron is correct about one thing-You and I will not change, and those two scammers, will not change. But one thing that WILL change, is that soon, they will be changing careers! Ha Ha! MAILMAN- you will go, to being MILKMAN. After all, as long as you have been milking the post office, you should be good at it. And as for that other crybaby, perhaps he can find a job, selling kleenex, seeing how he yearns for sympathy! Woe is me, boo hoo! The funny thing is, they still cannot answer my question, ” what do you scheisters expect the post office to do about this”?
January 11th, 2007 at 9:41 am
This will not affect 33,000 employees. Some of these employees will be able to do productive work, even if it is not their bid job. Some will be sent to the OWCP Rehab program, and of those, some will be able to work in the private sector. Some sent to the Rehab program will be unable to do anything, and the USPS will be stuck for 75% or 66.66% to them for life. This will not save the USPS the kind of money you think, but it will save some, and will get some back to work, and will get some to the private sector. I would guess that maybe 25% will be effectively placed to the private sector, and the USPS will still be stuck with 75% who can do something productive and it will be more cost-effective for the USPS to keep them in some capacity. The percentages may be different, but it will not be all-inclusive like some of you think.
January 11th, 2007 at 10:56 am
concerned or anybody else and who are not ibuc and latina-time:
I was under the impression, and I may be wrong, that “everybody and anybody” will pretty much be kicked to the curb and lose all their benefits after a year or two regardless if they can find work because they have been “rehabed”. If you know otherwise, and know more about it, please let me know. Thanks, curious
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January 11th, 2007 at 12:38 pm
The OWCP Rehabilitation Program is meant to be a benefit to employees injured on the job. The USPS still has an obligation, as required by law, to try to find suitable work for an employee injured on the job. What seems to be happening, and I believe rightly so, is that the USPS has decided they are not going to “invent” or create non-productive jobs for IODs to perform. If that is the case for an injured employee, that no job can be found, then the USPS will refer that employee to OWCP. OWCP will do analysis as to what kind of training the employee has, and see if they can help the employee find suitable work in the private sector. If need be, OWCP will re-train the employee, at OWCP expense. The goal is to get the injured employee back into a workforce of some kind. After a year of not being in a pay status, (LWOP), the USPS can remove the employee from their rolls and discontinue paying insurance. The thought is that the private sector employer will take over with insurance. However, the employee is protected from wage loss by law, so that OWCP will pay 75% of the difference, tax free, between the new wage and the old USPS wage. If the USPS decided that they cannot find suitable work for an employee, if the employee has over five years of service, (under CSRS), he/she can apply for a disability retirement and their insurance will continue to be paid, and if the employee, with the assistance of OWCP, has found employment, OWCP will deduct the insurance from the 75% difference. This is not a no-win situation for an employee, instead, it is a chance to be productive. I am pretty sure this is the way it works.
January 11th, 2007 at 7:15 pm
Thanks concerned.
I would like to see it be more of a win-win for employees. I don’t trust usps and it’s management. I never will and I don’t like to see people treated like crud, “disposable garbage, to be used, abused and thrown away”. WORDS OF WISDOM TO EVERYONE: if you see 1buc and latina user names posting anywhere, just keep on going, don’t read what they write.
January 11th, 2007 at 7:23 pm
1buc and latina-time are the two biggest jerks. Like I said before, if you see their names, just keep on going, don’t read what they write and move on. That is what I do.
I never read what they write.
But you never know, 1buc and latina-time could go under different user id names. Out of all the previous 34 posts, maybe there have been 3 or 4 people total using different id’s.
Who knows
January 12th, 2007 at 4:44 am
Hey CRUD-CURIOUS! You must have read some of my posts, or your useless ass, would not be so offended. And the reason that you are treated like crap, is because you are as useful as crap. This great NRP program will take care of that, probably your bimbos (IOD GIRL)— Get your scamming asses ready for the private sector!