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Postal Office Job?

What does Casual Employment do in postal office? is that term or full time job? is there benefit? how is pay like?

Public Comments

1. This is what a former co-worker, who has been working at the post office for 30+ years, told me: The term "Casual Employment" (C.E.) is the new politically-correct way of saying "Temporary Employment" (T.E.). As the same category of T.E., no, they are NOT required to offer ANY benefits, such as health insurance or "Premium Pay"(overtime, night shift differential, or holiday pay). Of course, the FLSA (Fair Labor Standards Act) states that, for any work performed exceeding the 40-hour work week, the employer must pay you O.T. However, being a Temp/Casual employee, they reserve the right to offer those O.T. hours to permenant employees before they offer it to you. ALL permenant employees have seniority over you, even those P/T ones, who may work less hours than you. That's why those permenant employees have seniority over you in Premium Pay. And ANY permenant F/T openings are offered to permenant P/T employees before being offered to you. In case of downsizing, temp/casual employees are the first ones to go, too. The WORST part is, instead of the 90-day trial period, this C.E. has a 180-day trial period (6 months) BEFORE you are even ALLOWED to take the official exam. Yes, with the current budget deficit and the weaker U.S. Dollar value, they have become PENNY PINCHERS; it costs the government $$ to give the exams (the cost of paper, ink, pay people to supervise the tests, as well as rent a facility for testing), so they have cut back on the tests as well. With so much budget cut in the government, they make it really hard to get in as a permanent (P/T or F/T) employee now. Check out this link: http://federaljobs.net/usps.htm#Casual_(temporary)_positions Hope this helps. And best of luck in your employment endeavors.