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March 23, 2011 at 08:00 PM
The full House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will meet April 5 to look at U.S. Postal Service pay and benefits.
Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the committee, says the committee expects to hear from Postal Service officials about the compensation agreement the service recently offered to the American Postal Worker Union.
The Postal Service has been facing financial problems, and Republicans on the House Oversight Committee say one concern is that the Postal Service appears to be paying workers about 34% more than comparable private-sector employers pay for similar work.
The Postal Service also has been involved in a dispute with the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) inspector general about whether the Postal Service has contributed $142 billion too much to the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund and the Postal Service Retiree Health Benefits Funds.
