The following are some of our observations.  Let us know what you have seen or experienced.

A.        The USPS is very aggressive in regard to finding so called modified duty or light duty jobs.  However, most of these jobs involve an incredible amount of repetitive movements.  Therefore, many job offers seemingly are within an individual's restrictions, but due to the frequency of the movements required, are really beyond their physical capability.

B.        Oftentimes, postal workers are provided limited duty jobs outside their craft.  This invariably creates difficulties for the employee on light duty as he is harassed by his new supervisor as well as the new co-employees that he has to deal with in his limited duty job.

C.        With the USPS push for automation coupled with the entire federal workers' compensation system's push to remove injured workers from the workers' compensation rolls, the injured USPS compensation claimant is being forced to face low paying jobs outside the federal government under the illusion of vocational rehabilitation.

D.        The postal worker faces an additional level of bureaucracy with the USPS injury claims service which influences the OWCP claim examiner.

E.         Forced to deal with additional bureaucracy - USPS injury claim office.

F.         Not so "light duty" mail processing jobs on machines such as FSM or SPBS involving constant "sweeping", "feeding", bending, lifting, twisting.

G.        Supervisors incorrectly categorizing injury ensuring denial, e.g., as a Ca-2a (recurrence) instead of a new CA-2 (repetitive trauma).

            The following are some of our observations.  Let us know what you have seen or experienced. 

A.        TSA employees often are not provided legitimate light duty jobs following an on the job injury.  Light duty jobs are often illusory.  For example, an injured TSA screener may be told that he or she would receive assistance in lifting luggage over the given weight.  However, when the job is actually performed, there are an inadequate number of employees to provide assistance and there is no way of discerning the weight of the object to be lifted until it is hoisted.

B.        Many TSA employees are on the lower end of the federal employee pay scale.  Therefore, they are afforded very little in regard to vocational rehabilitation as job placement is relatively easy.

C.        Law enforcement agents often are faced with the difficulty of providing casual connection with a physical repetitive trauma injury.  These employees often suffer emotional type injury that is not readily accepted by OWCP.  Similarly, injuries sustained in training accidents and consequential injuries following a traumatic injury are often contested.  Examples of these type claims include an agent performing surveillance on suspected terrorists aggravating his underlying Parkinson's disease and an agent receiving a blow to the neck during a training exercise only to develop an aneurism several weeks later.

            The following are some of our observations.  Let us know what you have seen or experienced. 

A.        Employees of DOD are particularly vulnerable to  OWCP claiming that they have found suitable employment across the country.  This involves very careful analysis as to "suitable" employment and close consideration of all the conditions affecting the claimant.  OWCP will terminate monetary benefits if a so called "suitable" job offer is rejected.  Under the FECA no consideration need be given as to the employee's family circumstances.

B.        DOD claimants are oftentimes hindered in proving fact of injury due to the fact that the supervisor is oftentimes in the military and intimidates employees, witnesses as well as the claims examiner.

            The following are some of our observations.  Let us know what you have seen or experienced. 

A.        The Veterans Administration is in a perfect position to have the inured employee go to the doctors of the VA's choice.  In other words, they simply have the injured employee go to a VA doctor.  The employee has the absolute right to select his own physician.  VA doctors are often heavily influenced by the Human Resources Director for the Veterans Administration in regard to treatment, particularly diagnostics.

B.        These doctors are often not willing to offer an opinion as to the causation between the diagnosis and the workers' compensation injury.  This makes it extremely difficult if not impossible for the claimant to prevail on a claim.  Also, these physicians may be extremely influenced by the Human Resources Director when it comes to placing work restrictions on the claimant and approving so called light duty jobs.

C.        The VA will try to place the injured worker in light duty capacity within the VA.  However, careful scrutiny has to be applied in analysis of the position for a determination as to whether or not the job is truly within the injured worker's restrictions which may at times actually include having the claimant get to the job site.

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