Reducing temp contract hours

[trythat]

Just been told all temp contracts hours to be reduced to 24 hours.

[rehabron]

Just been told all temp contracts hours to be reduced to 24 hours.

AFGAS 2.7.2 All part time employees will be entitled to keep their contractual hours if the so wish.

[clashcityrocker]

Just been told all temp contracts hours to be reduced to 24 hours.

AFGAS 2.7.2 All part time employees will be entitled to keep their contractual hours if the so wish.

That doesn't cover temporary contracts though.

[rehabron]

RE: Temporary Contracts

We have received reports from a number of areas in that Royal Mail are attempting to either cease temporary contracts or extend these contracts to a maximum of four year period. We have contacted the business and reiterated the current procedure which is set out in the MSTF agreement. Royal Mail have agreed to discuss this issue with CWU and we are attempting to arrange a meeting at the earliest opportunity. In the meantime if branches are facing particular difficulties at local level then they should arrange urgent meetings with their respective managers and utilise the terms set out in the MTSF agreement headed "Temporary Contracts" which states:

Royal Mail employees will be employed on substantive contracts except where there is a genuine short term need identified. CWU will be consulted in advance where there is any such requirement. Where such a need is identified specific event and time contracts may be issued for more or less than 12 months with the period of the event being the determining factor. Such contracts will not exceed two years unless it has been jointly agreed that there are very exceptional circumstances.
The joint commitment will be to reduce the current number of temporary contracts by effective resource planning and joint cooperation in securing and implementing operational change covered by national agreements to the required timescales. Individual based business units / recovery programmes will agree with the CWU how they plan to substantiate temporary contract employees, giving priority to those with more than two years service and reviewing progress with CWU on a regular basis.
In addition to the MTSF agreement we circulated LTB 143 dated 13 April 2004 which detailed protection rights under employment legislation for individuals with more than 12 months service and if a temporary contract holder had more than 2 years service. The Union's legal advice was that MTSF redundancy terms should be available to them. Royal Mail Group advised us that an instruction had been issued to substantiate all temporary contract holders with more than two years service. In addition, managers were advised to give preference to temporary contract holders when resourcing vacancies and this would be in line with the spirit set out in the terms of MTSF.

If management are not prepared to adhere to the MTSF agreement, branches are advised to register disagreement and ensure that the status quo is maintained until the full terms of the IR framework are exhausted.

Any enquiries to this LTB should be addressed to Ray Ellis's department, quoting reference PTC/MA/jc/020.


Email address: rellis@cwu.org

Yours sincerely

Ray Ellis

[clashcityrocker]

That's all very interesting Ron but totally irrelevant.

Temporary contract workers aren't guaranteed anything from the revision process.
If the revision takes out 5 jobs (for example) then 5 temp contract workers could get moved to offices with vacancies or they may just lose their jobs.
Nothing guarantees them jobs or even keeping the hours they are on.
If the work isn't there, then neither are the jobs.

[Barbel]

5 people in our office were told yesterday that their hours have been reduced from 30 hours down to 24 but they have been offered permanent contracts. I think I would rather have a permanent contract with less hours than be in limbo wondering whether I'm going to be kept on or not.

[dvbuk55]

We shouldn't forget that under the new agreement we are going to be predominantly full time