postal seniority adjustments

postal seniority adjustments Sec. 402. (a) The Postmaster General shall advance any employee in the postal field service— (1) who was promoted to a higher level between July 9, 1960, and October 13, 1962; (2) who is senior with respect to total postal service to an employee in the same post office promoted to the same level on or after October 13, 1962, and is on the effective date of this section in a step in the same level below the step of the junior employee; and (3) whom the Postmaster General determines is in the same craft and same branch of the Post Office Service as such junior employee. Such advancement by the Postmaster General shall be to the highest step which is held by any such junior employee. Any increase under the provisions of this subsection shall not constitute an equivalent increase and credit earned prior to adjustment under this subsection for advancement to the next step shall be retained. (b) Section 3552 of title 39, United States Code, is amended by deleting subsection (d).