Until the employee's reassignment is completed, the employee will continue to receive the same rate of pay received on the date of injury. This route would be numbered 980-999. This route would have all the characteristics of the date of injury route. The Snow Arbitration Decision would also not apply if he or she is being placed in a post office that does not have PTFs. If an injured worker is assigned a modified job that is classified as a PTF, please note that he or she is being converted at a saved rate that will guarantee a salary that equals that which he or she had at the date of injury.
Many carriers are concerned about the issue of holiday pay.
As a rural carrier, hourly salary is calculated by taking an annual salary and dividing by 2080 hours. As a PTF, annual salary will be divided by 2000. This 80 hour difference represents the 10 federal holidays. In essence, he or she is now going to be making more per hour to accommodate the missing holiday pay. Again, assignment to routes 960 through 979 are only temporary and the carrier would eventually have to be converted to a permanent modified position following the procedures listed above.