On March 12, NAPS asked the federal trial court to rule in its favor on all issues in its long-running lawsuit against the Postal Service regarding the FY2016-2019 EAS pay package. In its motion for summary judgment, NAPS asked the court to find that the Postal Service violated the pay and consultation requirements of the Postal Reorganization Act, 39 U.S.C. §§ 101, 1003, and 1004, by: 1) failing to ensure there were “adequate and reasonable differentials in rates of pay” between supervisors and craft employees; 2) failing to ensure EAS compensation was comparable to the private sector; and 3) refusing to recognize NAPS’s representation of postmasters and all “Area” and “Headquarters” EAS employees.
Along with the motion, NAPS submitted its accounting expert’s reports analyzing pay data for the years that pay package was in effect (January 2019 through August 2021). Those reports show that over 10,000 supervisors were not paid the 5% differential above the employees they supervised that the Postal Service had determined was “adequate and reasonable.” Indeed, as those reports show, many thousands of supervisors were paid a base salary that was less than the base salary of many thousands of employees they supervised.
The Postal Service will now have an opportunity to respond to NAPS’s motion, and NAPS will file its reply to that response in May. The judge will then decide these issues based on the law and the evidence presented by both sides.
The .pdf Memorandum in Support to Motion for Summary Judgement version can be found in the Members section under USPS Documents in NAPS Complaint (lawsuit) Against USPS – Information & News Coverage. Click here to login.
