General Information
Fill in the blanks; A general principle for excessing is that _________ and ________ must be kept to a minimum.
Dislocation and Inconvenience
When excessing outside of the craft or installation, how much notice must the Union at the Regional / Area level be given?
No less than 90 days in advance, (six (6) months in advance whenever possible).
What type of seniority governs in identifying excess employees within an occupational group and level.
Installation Seniority
True or False; Employees can be excessed into higher level withheld duty assignments.
False. Employees can only be excessed into the same or lower level.
What does CWHR stand for?
Comparative Work Hour Report
What MOU permits employees to priority transfer in an effort to minimize excessing?
MOU Re: Transfer Opportunities to Minimize Excessing
Employees must receive _____ days written notification when being involuntarily detailed or reassigned from one installation to another?
60 days
True or False; When an employee retires, management can immediately withhold that retiree's duty assignment for Article 12 excessing.
False. Vacated jobs must first go through the PAR and PER process before being withheld.
True or False; Employees excessed into a different craft will maintain their craft seniority.
False. Employees begin a new period of seniority when excessed into a different craft.
Must the Union request a copy of the CWHR?
No, Article 12 requires management to automatically provide a copy of the Comparative Work Hour Report.
Fill in the blank; Article 12.5.C.5 controls excessing out of the _________ and _________?
Craft and Installation
Employees must receive a minimum of _____ days written notification that specifically identify their placement selection and report date.
30 days
In the maintenance craft, employees that are excessed with saved grade are required to do WHAT in order to keep their saved grade?
Request placement on the promotion registers in their former higher levels.
True or False; Employees that volunteer to be excessed in lieu of a junior impacted employee forfeit their retreat rights.
True. No retreat rights for those who voluntarily go senior in lieu of.
When must management provide the Union with the CWHR?
Within 45 days after the excessing of any APWU represented employees outside of the craft or installation.
Can a veterans-preference employee be excessed into a lower level occupational group?
No, unless the employee agrees to waive their veterans-preference rights.
When local jobs are placed under article 12 withholding, who must management provide written notification to?
Local Union President
True or False; Excessed maintenance craft employees that turn down the first offered retreat to their former installation will forever lose all retreat rights.
False, they will only lose retreat to the occupational group they turn down.
True or False; Higher level employees that are excessed into lower level withheld duty assignments will maintain their current level and rate of pay.
True, assuming they request placement on the PER's of their former level.
Who must management provide the Comparative Work Hour Report to?
The Union at the Area / Regional Level.
Can an veterans preference employee be excessed beyond 50 miles?
No, unless it is done in accordance with step-4 agreement Q10C-4Q-C 14317802 / HQTT20140774
When and where is the earliest time management must provide the union with a list of all withheld vacancies for an excessing event?
During the regional meeting
An ET being considered for excessing cannot be excessed outside of the craft or installation if there are authorized vacancies in which two occupational groups?
MPE and MM7.
True or False; Maintenance employees that are excessed and take their saved grade with them will only receive saved grade for two years.
False, the two year saved grade language does not apply to the maintenance craft.
What does the Comparative Work Hour Report identify?
A listing of all work hours used on a daily basis in the affected craft for the period of thirty days before and thirty days after the reassignments.