Effective March 31, 2021, the Postal Service™ will revise the Employee and Labor Relations Manual (ELM), Chapter 7, in its entirety. Revisions to Chapter 7, which includes subchapters 710 through 750, incorporate the standards of the Postal Service’s learning and development platform, HERO. Revisions to subchapter 740 also clarify standards regarding employee external training policy, including Centralized Funding for Development and reimbursements.
Although the Postal Service will not publish these revisions in the ELM until March 31, 2021, the standards are effective immediately.
The Postal Service will incorporate these revisions into the next edition of the online ELM, which is available on the PolicyNet website:
n Go to blue.usps.gov.
n In the left-hand column, click Essential Links, and then click PolicyNet.
n Go to the right-hand side under “Published Forms and Directives.”
n Click Manuals.
The direct URL for the Postal Service PolicyNet website is blue.usps.gov/cpim.
— Learning and Development,
Learning Technology and Support, 1-28-21
