27. Postal employees, once hired, are protected from layoff for the rest of their careers.

28. An employee may not be adversely impacted by the use of FMLA relating to achieving protected status.

29. Part-time flexible letter carriers are guaranteed 40 hours of work at straight time rates before casual employees may be scheduled.

30. Casuals are either letter carriers or clerks.

31. If a casual works on Monday of a work week for eight hours and a PTF is not scheduled that day, a violation of the contract has occurred at that time.

32. Part-time flexible employees should be utilized across craft lines in lieu of utilizing casual employees.

33. Management may work employees across craft lines without restriction in offices of less than 100 employees.

34. RCA's are absolutely prohibited from working in the carrier craft.

35. Any manual sortation or preparation of mail for delivery on city delivery routes which have divisions down to the specific addresses on the route will be done by letter carriers.

36. When a full-time regular position is vacated in an installation by retirement or some other means, the Postal Service must immediately promote the senior part-time flexible to regular status.

37. When management combines work in different crafts to make a full-time position, they must first get the approval of the crafts involved.

38. The Postal Service may reassign an employee to another craft due to their inability to work safely.

39. Time worked by a part-time flexible carrier on an opted assignment is creditable for purposes of meeting the maximization criteria of Article 7, Section 3.C.

40. In an office with more than 200 man years of employment, full-time flexible regular positions count in the 88% full-time employees required pursuant to Article 7.3.A.

41. Criteria for conversion found in Article 7.3.C. applies only to offices of 125 man years or more.

42. A full-time flexible employee established per the Article 7 Memorandum is the same as an unassigned regular defined in Article 41, Section l.A.