1. ADDITIONAL OR LONGER WASH-UP PERIODS. To abide with and follow the National Agreement and to continue present practice. Present practice shall provide reasonable wash-up time to those employees who perform dirty work or work with toxic materials. 2. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A REGULAR WORK WEEK OF FIVE DAYS WITH EITHER FIXED OR ROTATING DAYS OFF. All tours shall have fixed days off. 3. GUIDELINES FOR THE CURTAILMENT OR TERMINATION OPERATIONS TO CONFORM TO ORDERS OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES OR AS LOCAL CONDITIONS WARRANT BECAUSE OF EMERGENCY CONDITIONS. In the event of a curtailment or termination of postal operations to conform to orders of local authorities or as local conditions warrant because of emergency conditions the following will apply: 1. If on duty, the employees will be notified of what action to take 2. The employer will make every effort to contact the employees through available media 3. Off duty employees will make every effort to contact their pay location for instructions. 4. Local Union representative will be informed of all details, by the installation head, after an emergency condition is declared and a decision is made. 5. Administrative Leave may be granted in emergency conditions caused by Acts of God. Administrative Leave will be administered in accordance with the ELM. 6. Liberal Leave Policy will be in effect during emergency conditions. 4. FORMULATION OF LOCAL LEAVE PROGRAM. Final detail implementing the vacation plan will be formulated by consultation between management and the representative of the Union as soon after January 1st as practical. Choice vacation will be approved by seniority. 1. Effective with notification, the employee will have three (3) days within which to submit application (PS Form 3971) for their choice vacation. 2. Employee will mark his/her choice on the vacation calendar and submit, in duplicate, PS Form 3971 to their immediate supervisor. Choice vacation will be written in the comments section of the PS Form 3971. 3. Employees who fail to make their selection within the three (3) days will be placed after the most junior employee in determining choice vacation. 4. After the initial sign-up period is completed and vacant weeks still exist on the vacation sign-up list, requests for any of these vacant weeks shall be handled on a first come, first serve basis daily, with seniority being the tie-breaker. PS Form 3971, submitted for the remaining vacant weeks will be returned to the employee within five days of submission. 5. In order for canceled annual leave to be posted, the employee must cancel it ten (10) days in advance, unless an emergency prevents the ten (10) day notice, and in increments of five (5), ten (10) or fifteen (15) days. 5. THE DURATION OF THE CHOICE VACATION PERIOD(S). The duration of the Choice Vacation Period for the Clerk and maintenance Craft will be the following: A. Clerk and Maintenance Craft: The first full week in May to the last full week in October, the week of Thanksgiving and the following week, and December 26 to January 1. 6. THE DETERMINATION OF THE BEGINNING DAY OF AN EMPLOYEE'S VACATION PERIOD. Leave taken during the choice vacation period will begin on a Monday and end on a Sunday. 7. WHETHER EMPLOYEES AT THEIR OPTION MAY REQUEST TWO SELECTIONS DURING THE CHOICE VACATION PERIOD, IN UNITS OF EITHER 5 OR 10 DAYS. Employees may, at his/her option, request two (2) selections during the choice vacation period, in units of either five (5) or ten (10) working days, the total not to exceed the ten (10) or fitteen (15) days as per the National Agreement. 8. WHETHER JURY DUTY AND ATTENDANCE AT NATIONAL OR STATE CONVENTIONS SHALL BE CHARGED TO THE CHOICE VACATION PERIOD. Jury duty or attendance at National or State Conventions shall not be counted as one of an employee's options or as one of the percentage of persons allowed off during the choice vacation period. 9. DETERMINATION OF THE MAXMUM NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES WHO SHALL RECEIVE LEAVE EACH WEEK DURING THE CHOICE VACATION PERIOD. 1. Under the present clerical arrangement, it is necessary to place the clerks into three tours in order to equitably grant annual leave and to assure adequate staffing at all times. These groups are: 1. Clerks assigned to Eastern Shore P&D Facility Tour 1. 2. Clerks assigned to Eastern Shore P&D Facility Tour 3. 3. Clerks assigned to Eastern Shore P&D Facility Tour 2. 4. Clerks assigned to Main Office. Tour means the starting time of employees tour according to the following: Tour 1 - 2000 to 0359 Tour 2 - 0400 to 1159 Tour 3 - 1200 to 1959 2. During the choice vacation period there will be allowed off on leave the percentage of clerk craft employees as follows: A. Tour 1 - 12%. B. Tour 2 - 15%. C. Tour 3 - 12%. D. Main Office - 15% 3. The following provision refers to maintenance craft only A. During the choice vacation allowed on leave the number of maintenance persons as follows: 1. ET and MPE mechanic - 20% 2. Custodian - 20% 3. Remainder of maintenance craft - 20% 4. The rule for roundinq off decimals shall be as follows: If the decimal place is (.50)fifty hundreds or higher, the number allowed off is rounded up to the next higher whole number. For example 1.50 employees would be rounded to 2 employees off. In the maintenance craft the decimal will be rounded to ensure at least one (1) employee in each category is allowed on leave during Choice Vacation Period. In the clerk craft the decimal will be rounded to ensure at least one (1) employee on each Tour is allowed off during the Choice Vacation Period. 5. The percentage will be applied to the total number of clerk craft employees on the rolls at the beginning of each leave year. 10. THE ISSUANCE OF OFFICIAL NOTICES TO EACH EMPLOYEE OF THE VACATON SCHEDULE APPROVED FOR SUCH EMPLOYEE. Supervisors will accept PS Form 3971, in duplicate, for leave requests. A copy of the PS form 3971, approved or disapproved, will be returned to the employee as their official notice. 11. DETERMINATION OF THE DATE AND MEANS OF NOTIFYING EMPLOYEES OF THE BEGINNING OF THE NEW LEAVE YEAR Abide by the National Agreement 12. THE PROCEDURES FOR SUBMISSION OF APPLICATIONS FOR ANNUAL LEAVE DURING OTHER THAN THE CHOICE VACATION PERIOD. A. Annual leave for the remainder of the year not in the choice vacation period may be applied for not more then one hundred eighty (180) days in advance for full weeks an not more than ninety (90) days for single days. Leave will be granted on a first-come first-served basis daily, as indicated by dates submitted on PS Form 3971, ties to be broken by seniority. B. Those employees who have applied for leave will be notified of action taken within seven (7) days of submission of their application. C. Annual Leave will be considered first an may take precedence over LWOP. 13. THE METHOD OF SELECTING EMPLOYEES TO WORK ON A HOLIDAY. Employees will be selected to work on holidays in the following order: 1. Volunteers by seniority. 2. Casuals 3. Transitional Employees. 4. Non-volunteers by juniority. The employer will determine the employees needed for holiday work and a schedule shall be posted as of Tuesday preceding the service week in which the holiday falls. 14. WHETHER "OVERTIME DESIRED" LISTS IN ARTICLE 8 SHALL BE BY SECTION AND/OR TOUR. A. Separate overtime desired list to be established. One for the Main Post Office, at 116 E. Dover Streetand a separate list for the Eastern Shore P&D Facility soon to be located at Airpark Drive. These lists will be posted at each installation and set up by Tours as in accordance with Article 8 Section 5 of the National Agreement B. Employees in the Clerk and Maintenance craft shall normally be given 2 hours advance notice when the Postal Service schedules overtime work, but may receive less notice if unusual conditions are found by the Supervisor of Distribution Operations or his/her designee. 15. THE NUMBER OF LIGHT DUTY ASSIGNMENTS WITHIN EACH CRAFT OR OCCUPATIONAL GROUP TO BE RESERVED FOR TEMPORARY OR PERMENENT LIGHT DUTY ASSIGNMENT. Abide by the National Agreement. 16. THE METHOD TO BE USED IN RESERVING LIGHT-DUTY ASSIGNMENTS SO THAT NO REGULARLY ASSIGNED MEMBER OF THE WORK FORCE WILL BE ADVERSELY AFFECTED. This item is not specifically addressed in the Easton LMOU. Please reference your previous LMOU or the National Agreement. 17. THE IDENTIFICATION OF ASSIGNMENTS THAT ARE CONSIDERED LIGHT DUTY WITHIN EACH CRAFT REPRESENTED IN THE OFFICE. Abide by the National Agreement and advise local Union steward of the light duty assignment. 18. THE IDENTIFICATION OF ASSIGNMENTS COMPRISING A SECTION, WHEN IT IS PROPOSED TO REASSIGN WITHIN AN INSTALLATION, EMPLOYEES EXCESS TO THE NEEDS OF A SECTION. The two crafts represented by the APWU Salisbury Area Local, will be divided into the following sections for the purpose of reassignment of employees excessed to the need of a section. 1. The Maintenance Craft - The entire maintenance craft shall be defined as one section. 2. The clerk craft will be composed of the following sections: A. Windows Services B. Manual Distribution Clerks - Tour 2. C. Remainder will abide by the National Agreement. Either party, signatory to this agreement, may request a meeting for the perpose of making changes in the reassignments section. Said meeting shall take place following the request. Change(s) resulting from such meeting shall be by mutual agreement and shall be incorporated in the Local Memorandum of Understanding. 19. THE ASSIGNNENT OF EMPLOYEE PARKING 1. Management will make every effort to provide designated employee parking. 2. The APWU (Salisbury Area Local) will be provided with a designated parking space. 20. THE DETERMINATION AS TO WHETHER ANNUAL LEAVE TO ATTEND UNION ACTIVITIES REQUESTED PRIOR TO DETERMINATION OD THE CHOICE VACATION SCHEDULE IS TO BE PART OF THE TOTAL CHOICE VACATION PLAN. Employees attending union activities must be considered in the total choice vacation plan, except two (2) employees in the installation may be allowed to attend Union activities without regard for the maxium percentage off. 21. THOSE OTHER ITEMS WHICH ARE SUBJECT TO LOCAL NEGOATIONS AS PROVIDED IN THE CRAFT PROVISIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT. A. Copy of updated seniority list. For the Clerk and maintenance craft, the installation head shall furnish to the Union a copy of the updated seniority list on a semiannual basis. B. Copy of updated seniority list for Part-time Regulars. Abide by the national agreement. C. Sufficient change of duties to cause reposting For the clerk and maintenance craft, if an assignment is changed from the original posting which causes an employee to perform more then 4 hours os his/her work, per day in a different occupational code, key position or standard position for a period of thirty consecutive days. or more than one hundred twenty days in a calendar year, that assignment shall be reposted. D. sufficient change in starting time to cause an assignment to be reposted. For the clerk and maintenance craft, a job will be reposted if there is a change in starting time of more then one hour. E. Application to cumulative changes in starting time. Abide by the National Agreement. F. Incumbent's option of accepting new starting time. For the clerk craft, the incumbent shall not have the option of accepting the new starting time. For the Maintenance craft the National Agreement will be followed. G. Length of posting. For the Clerk craft, the posting time for assignments will be seven (7) days. For the Maintenance craft the National Agreement will be followed(note, 7 days). H. Shorter period for placement in the assignment. For the Clerk and the Maintenance Craft, the National Agreement will be followed. 22. LOCAL IMPLEMENTATION OF THIS AGREEMENT RELATING TO SENIORITY, REASSIGNMENTS AND POSTING. The Union will be provided a copy of all bid assignments the day they are posted.