Re: Express gave exground employee position over express drivers with lower employee
Any one else heard of this BS On a recent full time driver posting they picked the 4th from the top because of his ground experience. The top candidate had over 5 years with express while the ex ground one had less than 2 years with express. Hey wait a min I have 5 years in . Does that mean he would have got the job over me if I bid too. I think it's a slap in the face. I thought your employee number was key to bidding. I took me almost 5 years to get full time and he gets it in less than 2?
Express did (and presumedly still does) use a two step qualification process for filling vacancies (which are seniority based and not interview based).
For any vacancy, there are applicants which are placed into two categories (forget the precise term for these categories). One category are applicants that already hold the job title and work status of the position being advertised. So if the position was for a full-time Courier, all CURRENT full-time Couriers (NOT part-time Couriers) would be placed into this 'higher' priority category. All full-time Couriers would be rank ordered in terms of applied seniority points (CEV), and award of the vacancy would be granted to the individual possessing the greatest CEV score. If there is only one applicant that is in this first category, they will automatically get the position.
The second category of applicants are all Express employees which ARE NOT currently classified in the job title AND work status. If the position were for a full-time Courier, any Express non full time Couriers (this would include part-time Couriers) applying to the position would be rank ordered according to their CEV points under this category. The applicant with the highest CEV point total would be offered the position - AS LONG AS there were no applicants in the higher category.
So you are going to need to do some research, and find out if the position was awarded to an existing full-time Courier (while the rest of the applicants were NOT full-time Couriers). If this was the case, the award was legit. On the other hand, if this 2 year employee WASN'T already a full-time Courier, and was awarded the position ahead of other Express employees who had more CEV points - there is a basis for a GFT claim.
CEV points are a combination of years of service in combination with employment status (full or part time). Simply put, employees holding a part-time position only receive half the CEV points for a given number of years of service, than a full-time employee would receive with the same number of years of service.
So if this former Ground driver was a full-time Courier already (with his 2 years in), AND all of the other applicants were NOT currently holding a full-time Courier position, then this Courier with less than 2 years with Express would indeed be awarded the position - based on his being in the 'first' category of job applicants. You can have an employee with 25 years with Express bidding on a position, being 'beat out' by an employee with only 2 years in, IF that 2 year employee was in the first category of selection while the 25 year employee was classified into some other job code at the time of application and was in the second category. I saw this happen all the time when I was in Express.
Simply put, 'you' as a 5 year part-time Courier will be beat out on a full-time Courier position EVERY TIME, if.... an already classified full-time Courier applies for the position.
Station management no longer trains new employees how to go into JCATS and look at the applicants for a position, but if you know how to get into the system (open access to all employees), you can look at the CEV scores of the applicants for any open position, and it will indicate which applicants are in the first category and which are in the second category of applicants. if you are a second category applicant and you see that a first category applicant is listed - you can pretty much forget about getting the position. If there are no applicants in the first category and you are the highest ranked applicant in the second category when the position closes (in terms of CEV points), then the position will be awarded to you.