faceindawind
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RCA covering route for 89 days. Bid comes up on 90th day. RCA covers it on this day. This RCA will be winner of bid at the end. Will they have to wait another 90 before leave is credited after bid win?
Hypothethical RCA covering for 89 days. Bid up on 90th day
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Faceindawind -- "RCA covering route for 89 days. Bid comes up on 90th day. RCA covers it on this day."
-- On the 91st day, the RCA will be credited with earned leave from day one.
" This RCA will be winner of bid at the end."
-- Assuming the RCA is the senior RCA in the office -- what about an excessed regular carrier? Any within 50-100 miles?
"Will they have to wait another 90 before leave is credited after bid win?"
-- If the current RCA running the route is the route winner, he/she will receive pro-rated annual leave upon being converted to regular. That would be 1/2 day per pay period from the date of making regular to the day before the start of the first full pay period in January -- 1.5 or 2 days -- depending on appointment date.
-- As long as the RCA continues to run the route until becoming the regular, the earned annual leave should carry over instead of being paid in a lump sum, since the RCA has remained in a leave-earning status. Sick leave will carry over.
-- There's a blurb somewhere that new regular carriers have to wait for 90 days before using annual leave. He/she will be earning it, just can't use it. Can't find it at this time. Anyone??
-- On the 91st day, the RCA will be credited with earned leave from day one.
" This RCA will be winner of bid at the end."
-- Assuming the RCA is the senior RCA in the office -- what about an excessed regular carrier? Any within 50-100 miles?
"Will they have to wait another 90 before leave is credited after bid win?"
-- If the current RCA running the route is the route winner, he/she will receive pro-rated annual leave upon being converted to regular. That would be 1/2 day per pay period from the date of making regular to the day before the start of the first full pay period in January -- 1.5 or 2 days -- depending on appointment date.
-- As long as the RCA continues to run the route until becoming the regular, the earned annual leave should carry over instead of being paid in a lump sum, since the RCA has remained in a leave-earning status. Sick leave will carry over.
-- There's a blurb somewhere that new regular carriers have to wait for 90 days before using annual leave. He/she will be earning it, just can't use it. Can't find it at this time. Anyone??
Shafted
Well-known member
Do you mean bid came up and was posted, or bid came, now its ten days, then ten to award? Regardless, if 90 days is served, and carrier is continuously on route with no break, then There should be no problem. Newly appointed regulars do not have a 90 day waiting period to earn, or use earned leave. Be mindful that AL will be advanced for the remainder of this year at 4 hr a pp, which should be 5 pay periods, or 20 hours advanced AL approximately. Sick leave is earned as you go as a regular at 4 hours a pp. if newly appointed regular checks their leave balances when leave is finally entered, and it it more than the approx 20 hours of AL, and more the. 4 hours SL, on their first check as regular, then you know there will have been a credit for those 90 days prior to becoming regular. If I had to guess based on 90 days being three months, and 6-1/2 pay periods, that if you see a total of 44 hours of AL, and 24 hours of SL in your balances they paid you for the 90 days served as a sub. Also remember that 44 hours on your paycheck balance looks like 10.5 days, and 24 of SL looks like 3.0 days
faceindawind
New member
Posted as hypothetical... 2nd truck was late due to highway pull over Truck inspection station.
It was a discussion/debate between REGS and Super yesterday morning. Some said leave earned after the 90 will be credited and reflected in the last check involving the 90 day coverage. With REG appointment this leave would be added to with credited leave for the remainder of the year.
Others said they would have to wait another 90 days for their advance leave to be reflected in their check but they could still use it.
It was a discussion/debate between REGS and Super yesterday morning. Some said leave earned after the 90 will be credited and reflected in the last check involving the 90 day coverage. With REG appointment this leave would be added to with credited leave for the remainder of the year.
Others said they would have to wait another 90 days for their advance leave to be reflected in their check but they could still use it.
EthelAnne
Well-known member
Not a hypothetical in my case--this is actually what happened to me! I finished my 90th day, and promoted to regular the very next day, and leave from my hold down appeared on my SECOND pay stub, because the only people who must meet deadlines in this organization are carriers. My experience is now the story that the union reps in my district use to illustrate this benefit/consequence!
I did need to make everyone aware of the fact that I had worked the 90 days. No one tracks this stuff! So keep records, and bring it to their attention.
So, to answer your question, the RCA who only worked 89 days? They are SOL.
I did need to make everyone aware of the fact that I had worked the 90 days. No one tracks this stuff! So keep records, and bring it to their attention.
So, to answer your question, the RCA who only worked 89 days? They are SOL.
