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Royal Mail was selling some of its branches to private companies under a franchising arrangement. Royal Mail thought that no automatic transfer took place under TUPER 2006 regulation 4 when workers went to the franchisee. It therefore refused to offer this option to the employees (on top of what it was doing to relocate staff under mobility ...
Historically, Royal Mail and the Post Office were part of the same entity and were a public authority. They split into separate organisations in 2012. [ 11 ] The Post Office's unique position, with a history as a prosecutor going back to 1683, gave the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) concerns about its neutrality.
Subpostmasters are self-employed business operators, who run Post Office branches under contract to the state-owned Post Office. [a] In 1999 the Post Office rolled out new electronic point of sale and accounting software, Horizon (produced and maintained by Fujitsu), to its network of over 11,000 branches. [1]
The CWU has accused Royal Mail of refusing an offer to suspend the strikes and establish a period of calm until January 16. Dave Ward, general secretary of the Communication Workers Union (CWU ...
Wednesday 17 October from midday for Royal Mail drivers; Thursday 18 October from midday for Manual data entry centres; Thursday 18 October from 2pm at Heathrow world distribution centre. In late afternoon 12 October, Royal Mail succeeded in obtaining an injunction at London's High Court banning the scheduled strikes starting on 15 and 16 ...
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The Royal Mail strikes ended in July 2023 after workers agreed to a three-year pay deal. Seventy-six per cent of union members voted in favour of the agreement, [ 41 ] which included a ten per cent salary increase and a one-off lump sum of five-hundred pounds, in a ballot with a sixty-seven per cent turnout.
The Royal Mail has apologised to customers across Kent and East Sussex who have been experiencing long postal delays. The BBC has heard from people in Rochester, Sevenoaks and Canterbury in Kent ...