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Most mail centre staff are part time and are not affected by the sww so no point putting them on 4 days. They might offer it as an option but no more.
Scampthedog, I can't find anything on the CWU website relating to this (or anywhere on t'interweb) and it certainly hasn't been communicated in my office! I agree with Defroster66 that it would be a nice move as I am coming up to take my NRA60 soon so a 4 day week would be brilliant (although as a child in the 1970s my Geography teacher predicted a 3 day week - teachers huh....what do they know?) .
In effect this means working 4 x 8.75 hour shifts but there will always be people waning to work overtime (especially youngsters with families and mortgages) so they will probably sign up for an extra duty on the 5th day and still have 2 days off. We have OPGs in our office who seem to live in the work place and the Managers love them because they are always hungry for overtime.
As a company that has always relied heavily on overtime I can't see massive savings here as it is cheaper to let an existing employee perform overtime than actually employ the correct number of staff in the first place.
Don't believe it. You got a link?
Scamp good reporting. I'd be happy with that as a postie that doesn't do o/t or sa days off it would just be an hr extra a day and a day less a week and as you say a big saving for rm
Royal Mail announced to its workforce yesterday that all of its employees (unsure of the drivers) will, as of October, be working a four day week...this is in response to the reduction of the working week (Four Pillars Campaign) down to 35 hours agreed in the arbitration settlement. This is a clever move by the Royal Mail: 1; it will reduce the need for agency staff...due to the fact all shifts will be considerably increased, 2; it will decrease the amount of overtime the company pays its employees ( a lot of it completely unnecessary) due to the fact many people will be physically incapable of working 11 to 12 hour shifts, 3; it will reduce the amount of holiday pay: employees who sign up to "SA" receive this amount of guaranteed overtime in their pay packets when sick or taking holidays...soon to be included when employees undertake "Pressure" overtime as well I believe. This is a masterstroke that RMG has just pulled...will save millions over the next couple of years until the working week is down to four x 8.75 hour shifts -- Clever!!