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Royal Mail employment policies are ideal for reps and colleagues as a quick guide to our full agreements.

Royal Mail have developed summaries on the agreements colleagues most frequently ask about. The at-a-glance summaries give an overview of the key parts of the policies so you can quickly find the information you need.

• Time off: annual holiday

• Time off: other leave

• Sick pay

• Attendance

• Being a parent

• Flexible working

See all the policies Here...

Registered members of the site have access to the full agreements in our downloads forum.


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  LATEST NEWS

TUC - Royal Mail bosses “must answer” for “chaos” in postal service

Late Royal Mail post is ‘badly affecting our national life as a country’

MP meets with Royal Mail over service failures in South Shropshire

Missing Royal Mail post arrives 'in bundle' on Bradford street

Exmouth Royal Mail said to a three member staff shortage

Royal Mail statement after 'unusable' digital post box complaints

Business and Trade Committee news stories

'A national institution in meltdown': MPs slam Royal Mail as billionaire owner faces MPs over dismal service

Pressure needs to be applied on Royal Mail to improve postal performance

Royal Mail opens shop on Stevenage Gridserve EV forecourt

LTB 080/26 – Further Extension to both the USO and Equalisation

LTB 056/26 – DRP Extended

LTB 037/26 – National CWU DRP on the Equalisation of New Entrants’ Pay, Terms and Conditions.

LTB 027/26 – Dispute Resolution Process, USO & Equalisation

LTB 019/26 – ROYAL MAIL UPDATE – Overview of the current situation with EP/RMG

LTB 241/25 – BRT&G Agreement – Seasonal Variation 2025 Further Update (November 2025)

LTB 223/25 – NATIONAL BRIEFING – UPDATE ON NEGOTIATIONS WITH ROYAL MAIL GROUP/EP GROUP

LTB 216/25 – UPDATE ON REBUILDING ROYAL MAIL – OUTSTANDING SECTION 5 ISSUES

LTB 201/25 – SISO Overtime Management National Deployment – Joint Statement

Update on the USO Pilot Units bulletin 2

DHL drivers to strike and others to be balloted

IOM - Reduction in local post office services under fire

Evri launches locker partnerships with Tesco and Motor Fuel Group

An Post’s ‘UK Direct’ opens door to Britain for Irish SMEs

DPD - Delivery firm opens two new distribution centres creating jobs

Inside the Russian explosives plot that sent incendiary parcels to the UK

Postal workers in Bulgaria protest for higher wages

SENT PACKING British courier firm collapses into liquidation after 14 years as Evri apologises over missed deliveries

US Postal Service expects to run out of cash in a year without help from Congress, postmaster says

Russia was behind parcel fires in UK and Europe, investigators say


Dates for 2026/2027

Annual leave whilst on sick leave

How much is holiday pay?

Dates for 2025/26?

Average pay while on A_L qualifying period

Holiday pay

Non payment of HP for this week

Dates for 2024?

Holiday pay after leaving RM

Holiday pay, (how much)

Independent Assurance Reviewer sought to examine DWP’s activities relating to Post Office staff prosecutions

New redress scheme announced for Horizon scandal family members

Restorative Justice Council launches national, independent programme for Horizon Scandal

Qdos: Post Office’s £104m IR35 blunder could leave thousands of contractors owed millions in tax refunds

1,500 Post Office victims await compensation from ‘re-traumatising’ redress system

Post Office scandal victim Parmod Kalia dies without receiving full compensation

Dates for 2026/2027

Post Office will fight Capture victims’ appeals despite admitting IT was faulty

MPs criticise Fujitsu for not contributing ‘a penny’ to Post Office scandal compensation

Post Office scandal victim Seema Misra still awaiting full compensation after 15 years

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