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PUBLIC LAW 86-682-SEPT. 2, 1960
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ASSIGNMENT AND TRANSFER OF EMPLOYEES
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§ 3331. D u t y station The Postmaster General shall designate an official duty station for employees within the region, division or territory to which they are assigned. H e may not allow per diem, in lieu or actual expenses, to employees for official travel except when they are traveling on official business away from their home and their official duty station. § 3332. Assignment to branches and stations The Postmaster General may assign employees in a post office to duty in a branch or station thereof. § 3333. Transfer of postal transportation employees (a) The Postmaster General may transfer employees in the Postal Transportation Service, including supervisors, from one position or assignment to another position or assignment in the Postal Transportation Service. (b) When the Postmaster General is required because of changes in the service to transfer employees of the Postal Transportation Service, including supervisors, from one position or assignment to another, he may not reduce their basic salary except as provided in subsection (c) of this section. While serving in miscellaneous assignments they shall be retained l y the Postmaster General on the roster of their own organizations. He shall also retain for them the promotion status authorized by law for the positions from which they are withdrawn. They are entitled to pav by the hour for actual services performed when on other than roaa duty. For road duty services they are entitled to pay by the hour according to the time value of the trip including a proper allowance for all services required on lay-off periods, untifagain restored to regular positions. (c) When a surplus postal transportation employee, including a supervisor, can not oe placed in a position corresponding to his salary step or salary level in the position from which he was withdrawn without giving him preference over an employee or supervisor with a longer continuous transportation service record, the Postmaster General may relegate him to a lower salary step or salary level in his own organization or transfer him elsewhere to any salary step or salary level that may be available for a regular employee or supervisor of his standing. § 3334. Transfer of ten-point preference eligibles (a) An employee entitled as a preference eligible under chapIQJ. \^ ^f ^j^jg 5 ^ ^ ^ points in addition to his earned rating, who transfers between positions in the same salary level at a post office, shall not, as a result of the transfer, incur loss of seniority if he presents, to the Civil Service Commission, within thirty days after the transfer, satisfactory evidence to the Civil Service Commission that the transfer was necessitated principally by reason of a disability which he received on active duty in the Armed Forces of the United States. (b) The Postmaster General may not reduce a regular employee to substitute status to accord the benefits of this section to another employee. § 3335. Dual employment and e x t r a duties (a) The Postmaster General may appoint an employee to more than one position and he shall pay compensation at the rate provided by law for each position, without regard to the provisions of sections 58,62,69, and 70 of title 5.
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