This has been an ongoing issue for years.
https://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits/2023/05/pay-cuts-have-rural-letter-carriers-scared-and-outraged/386376/
Earlier this month, Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, John Fetterman, D-Pa., and Ed Markey, D-Mass., sent a letter to DeJoy asking him to delay RRECS implementation, pointing to its “serious flaws.” Nearly 14,000 employees are set to lose more than eight hours of pay per week, they said, based on unreliable data.
“Implementing RRECS in its current form will arbitrarily enact a pay cut for tens of thousands of rural postal workers who still lack a formal dispute process and have a history of delayed back pay from the postal service,” the senators said. “Furthermore, USPS has withheld information about how RRECS has made its initial route evaluations.”
They requested that USPS share the data that led to the new route calculations, create a process for employees to dispute changes to their routes, explain how management decided to shorten the expected time to complete certain tasks and ensure the rural letter carrier workforce capacity does not diminish.
“At a time when USPS is struggling to deliver mail to rural areas, due in part to an inability to recruit rural letter carriers, we fear that RRECS’ impact on working conditions and pay will further deteriorate a vital service to our rural communities,” the senators said.
Dave Partenheimer, a USPS spokesman, said the new process was jointly negotiated by the agency and the union.
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