Can the system accommodate PTF preferencing?
Yes. Shared Services posting and bidding system will be able to accommodate PTF Preferencing, Assignment of Unencumbered Employees and PTR Bidding. This fact has not been shared with local services to date and Shared Services Personnel have not been trained on this. These processes will have to be done locally until Shared Services can get the bidding process done with an acceptable error rate. Communication What time frame is appropriate for reporting retirements, resignations, transfers, craft changes, deaths, conversion of PTFs, etc. Three (3) working days. Shared Services acknowledged that there had been some problems. They stated that these problems were not system problems but personnel problems and that they had been corrected. Shared Services refused to provide further detail. It was suggested that delays on PTF conversions are occurring because local services fails to include a copy of the grievance settlement. What are the guidelines for accepting locally forwarded informatio
