Limit on number of hours RCA can work in pay period?

[gotstamps]

Idk what all that verbiage is. I am an RCA have been for a year. I have not had a day off since November 2020. It is now March 2021. I work 7:30 to 5:30 every day doing K routes and Express. They also have me delivering misthrows and big parcels that regs can't handle. I can't take much more of this crap.

Sometimes you have to request a day off to get one. If you request Saturday or Monday, your Sunday is protected which gets you 2 days off in a row.
If that’s not a possibility, call out for a mental health day.

 

[SaintLethal]

I am the only one that gets scheduled every Sunday. No other RCA does Sundays. We get people from other offices. It bites.

 

[gotstamps]

I am the only one that gets scheduled every Sunday. No other RCA does Sundays. We get people from other offices. It bites.

If you are on the “no” list & there are other RCAs in your office that aren’t being scheduled on Sundays, that is a grievance. Look up the Sunday/Holiday MOU for the rules mgmt must follow.

 

[btdtret]

SaintLethal -- "I am the only one that gets scheduled every Sunday. No other RCA does Sundays. We get people from other offices."

-- A "disparate" treatment grievance might be in order, as "gotstamps" noted.

-- Search for 'sunday delivery" in the KNOWLEDGEBASE Section. Having past work schedules would be helpful although it might take an ADR's request for manglement to produce them.

-- Discuss the possibility of the grievance with your office steward, or if none, your Assistant District Representative.

-- Manglement does get a pass on bypassing other leave replacements for Sunday/holiday delivery IF those leave replacements would be over 40 hours at the end of the week. ( manglement would really have to be managing to determine that on the second day of the work week )

 

[thinkingfarmer]

Someone said they worked an average of 75 hours a week. That's about $34K in overtime and about $36K in regular time. That's just north of $70K, taxable income.

Personally, I don't want to spend almost every waking moment at the post office.

My sister was called off my upper mgt when she had 50 Hours of OT at mid week. They are slaving RCAs.

 

[Worve]

Management here gets calls daily from up above about a couple of us rcas working over 40 every week for now months on end. So far still averaging 50-60 hr weeks. Only plus side I atleast get paid for every hour I work as an rca. Can’t imagine the regs who do this and are getting hosed feel bad for you all.

 

[Morty]

This is such BS.

We can't win an Amazon grievance, yet allow Sunday delivery.

The board is telling us we work under evaluation by 4 hours collectively. Sunday hours aren't included. If a carrier works just 1 day in a pp, they allow it in the percentages as them working 78 hours under evaluation.

We keep looking like dumb idiots when no one challenges them.

So, to the author who revived this thread. Schedule a Doctors appointment for Monday. May take a few weeks. Use the 800 number and call in Friday. Take 4 days off, get the Doctors note. Don't present the Doctors note. If demanded to get one, take off another day to get the note because you were ordered to get a note and they close at 3 and you work till 5. Then get on EAP and permanently go one day a month for the rest of time.

 

[Diz]

FYI: I won't make what i made as an RCA on the same route Im doing now, until I reach STEP 11 ON TABLE 2!!! 4.5 years on Table 1, 11 years on Table 2.

Maybe another reason the PO is cutting to 6 day?

If you were on table 1 how are you now on table 2?

 

[Diz]

FYI: I won't make what i made as an RCA on the same route Im doing now, until I reach STEP 11 ON TABLE 2!!! 4.5 years on Table 1, 11 years on Table 2.

Maybe another reason the PO is cutting to 6 day?

If you were on table 1 how are you now on table 2?

I was hired as an RCA for a po about 15 miles away from my house, the town I live in belongs to another po. The regular who delivers to me found out I was a sub and asked if I would be interested in subbing for them. I asked my current PM about it and she said I would not be able to because I was assigned to her. I would very much like to work as much as possible and the other PM said that as long as I'm not scheduled on my assigned po I'm free to seek work with other po's. Any truth to any of this? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

As long as you aren't scheduled in your office you can work any other office. Just remember your office comes first.

 

[Skierstmoritz]

If you were on table 1 how are you now on table 2?

Morty, like myself, was probably hired between 11/2010 - 8/1/2012. ERGO table 1. If that's the case, as rcas, we would now be making over $23/hr. I went regular in 2017 am now step 4 table 2 making quite a bit less than $23/hr . Plus, am in an Amazon office and get no ot. All the while giving the po plenty of free hours.

 

[Voglio-il mio]

Morty, like myself, was probably hired between 11/2010 - 8/1/2012. ERGO table 1. If that's the case, as rcas, we would now be making over $23/hr. I went regular in 2017 am now step 4 table 2 making quite a bit less than $23/hr . Plus, am in an Amazon office and get no ot. All the while giving the po plenty of free hours.

Everyone at Duke street is clueless to the pain you are feeling, Crickets nothing but Crickets.

 

[psd181]

I thought only absolute on RCA's was 12 hours in a day or 84 in a 7 day week....... but what do I know. BTW that's evaluated hours so actual may vary.

 

[Old Fart]

My sister was called off my upper mgt when she had 50 Hours of OT at mid week. They are slaving RCAs.

About 7-8 years ago when an RCA worked over 50 hrs of OT in a week the check had to be separately approved and paper check sent from Eagan (fraud potential). I believe that management will work a person as many hours as they can get away with, both from their bosses not blasting them and the RCA willing to work that much.

If you were on table 1 how are you now on table 2?

As long as you aren't scheduled in your office you can work any other office. Just remember your office comes first.

Heads up -- if you work over 40 in another office YOUR office gets charged for the overtime. That's why many offices won't lend their RCA's to other offices, as THEY pay the OT when the day is actually worked away from their home office.

 

[Dominator]

... they decided to not allow anyone to work over 6 days a week after some silly standup about mental exhausting.

Anybody have a copy of this standup? I'd love to see what the PO identifies as "mental exhaustion".

 

[Worve]

I thought only absolute on RCA's was 12 hours in a day or 84 in a 7 day week....... but what do I know. BTW that's evaluated hours so actual may vary.

Been worked several times at other offices for 13-14 hrs before I call them and say I’m done. Needless to say unless mandated I refuse to work at those offices ever again.

 

[Defiant]

I was hired as an RCA for a po about 15 miles away from my house, the town I live in belongs to another po. The regular who delivers to me found out I was a sub and asked if I would be interested in subbing for them. I asked my current PM about it and she said I would not be able to because I was assigned to her. I would very much like to work as much as possible and the other PM said that as long as I'm not scheduled on my assigned po I'm free to seek work with other po's. Any truth to any of this? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

She should know better. What she might be trying to avoid is you hitting OT in her office after working a bunch at another office. That occurrence really irks an assigned office PM.

 

[Old Fart]

She should know better. What she might be trying to avoid is you hitting OT in her office after working a bunch at another office. That occurrence really irks an assigned office PM.

Agree. It's the overtime issue. Even if you're under 40 when you work in another office, if you go over in any office, your HOME office pays the overtime. So to keep their options open, and keep overtime from being paid for work in ANOTHER office, they say NO. We've tried to borrow subs for our offices from neighboring offices, and even if RCA's are only 30 hrs, they still refuse, not wanting to chance the OT.

 

[Worve]

Got called this morning and told I have today and tomorrow off and that I will NOT be going to another office. Jokes on them I was mandated to work tomorrow at a neighboring office ??. suppose I better dml check in the morning before I head out wouldn’t mind two days off in a row anyways.

 

[Skierstmoritz]

Agree. It's the overtime issue. Even if you're under 40 when you work in another office, if you go over in any office, your HOME office pays the overtime. So to keep their options open, and keep overtime from being paid for work in ANOTHER office, they say NO. We've tried to borrow subs for our offices from neighboring offices, and even if RCA's are only 30 hrs, they still refuse, not wanting to chance the OT.

Or the possibility the rca may prefer the other office and transfer

 

[Twigggy2.0]

I was hired as an RCA for a po about 15 miles away from my house, the town I live in belongs to another po. The regular who delivers to me found out I was a sub and asked if I would be interested in subbing for them. I asked my current PM about it and she said I would not be able to because I was assigned to her. I would very much like to work as much as possible and the other PM said that as long as I'm not scheduled on my assigned po I'm free to seek work with other po's. Any truth to any of this? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

You are most definitely allowed to work at other post offices if you are not scheduled at your primary office. They are correct