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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 ...
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]
On 12 October, Royal Mail challenged the legality of the next phase of the planned action, claiming that the notice of the strike had been improperly issued. [10] 24 hour strikes were planned for; [11] Monday 15 October from 6pm at Mail sorting offices and airports; Tuesday 16 October from 3am at Deliveries and collection hubs
The government later announced that it would provide further compensation to the litigants through the GLO compensation scheme. [9] Following the settlement, Bates crowdfunded £98,000 to obtain legal advice to submit a claim to the Parliamentary Ombudsman , asking the government to reimburse the legal costs of the group litigants and provide ...
The appellant's claims did not satisfy the CPR requirements; its claims are also dependent on Egyptian law. [18] R (on the application of Majera (formerly SM (Rwanda)) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] UKSC 46: 20 October 2021 Immigration Act 1971: Appellant remains on bail in accordance with the original Bail Order. [19]
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.
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 strike action began on a local level after postal workers at Royal Mail offices in London and Edinburgh accused their bosses of cutting jobs and services, which they claimed broke the 2007 Pay and Modernisation Agreement, the agreement that was struck to end the 2007 strikes, and accused Royal Mail of threatening modernisation of the ...