Principles and Requirements. 1. Dislocation and inconvenience to full-time and part-time flexible employees shall be kept to the minimum consistent with the needs of the service. When the reassignment of employee(s) represented by the APWU is to withheld vacancies outside of the employee’s present installation, the date on which the reassignment will occur will be the same for all impacted employees within the same Postal Area in which the excessing is occurring. Excessing of APWU employees within the same Postal Area cannot occur more than once in any three (3) calendar month period, except by mutual agreement of the parties. 2. The Vice-President, Area Operations shall give full consideration to withholding sufficient full-time and part-time flexible positions within the area for full-time and part-time flexible employees who may be involuntarily reassigned. Management shall identify duty assignments within the appropriate radius held by PSEs which shall be made available for the reassignment of excess career employees. When positions are withheld, local management will periodically review the continuing need for withholding such positions and discuss with the union the results of such review.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
