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Temporary Royal Mail workers at Carlisle’s sorting office are still waiting for unpaid wages, despite being promised they would receive them yesterday.
Related: Carlisle Royal Mail workers walk out in row over missing pay
Royal Mail said it had arranged for deliveries of vouchers, which can be cashed in at post offices, to be made across the north west after problems with its payroll system left casual staff unpaid.
But one of the affected Carlisle staff, Samantha Foster, said this morning she had not received the promised payment.
She added: “We did not receive our cheques yesterday. Having called them at several points through the day, we got a phone call late in the evening to inform us that the cheques will hopefully be arriving before midday today.”
Some of the affected staff walked out on Saturday because they feared the situation would not be resolved quickly enough.
There are thought to be about 60 temporary workers working three different shifts at the Junction Street site. They were brought in to help cope with the Christmas demand. On Friday, workers on one of the day shifts were told the two weeks’ wages they were owed had not gone into their bank accounts.
Bosses promised an alternative form of payment would be made the next day, but it didn’t materialise. So just under half of the 20-strong shift walked out.
They are employed by Angard Staffing Solutions, the Royal Mail in-house recruitment agency. Angard has been failing to pay temporary workers in other parts of the country over the last couple of weeks
Royal Mail will not publicly discuss the problems with Angrad because a review is pending.
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R M CARLISLE TEMPORARY STAFF STILL WAITING TO BE PAID
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R M CARLISLE TEMPORARY STAFF STILL WAITING TO BE PAID
I Wrote-During Covid-Which is still relevant now
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been.
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The daily grind of having to argue your case with an intellectual pigmy of a line manager is physically and emotionally draining.
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been.
My BFF Clash
The daily grind of having to argue your case with an intellectual pigmy of a line manager is physically and emotionally draining.
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How about "Royal Mail will not publicly discuss the problems with Angard, because they own Angard are won't admit they messed up big time". Sounds closer to the truth.Royal Mail will not publicly discuss the problems with Angard because a review is pending.
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Re: R M CARLISLE TEMPORARY STAFF STILL WAITING TO BE PAID
You have only dealt with them for a few weeks, we deal with them all year and this is par for the course, gross incompetence is the order of the day in RM.guitar-mike wrote:How about "Royal Mail will not publicly discuss the problems with Angard, because they own Angard are won't admit they messed up big time". Sounds closer to the truth.Royal Mail will not publicly discuss the problems with Angard because a review is pending.
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I only worked 2 days for them in teeside 3 weeks ago cause of some total cockup and i havent been paid for them days yet either even after i got phone call last week off them asking for my bank details, which i thought was a bit odd to give details over the phone it could of been anyone, but after this fiasco luckily theres nothing in there anyway just in case.
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No, nowt about direct payment where I casually work (West Midlands)
Plus the breaking news posted by others that "a review [of Angard] is under way".
Usually in large organisations, this is followed by people muttering that "heads will roll".
Is this a hint that Angard fukced it up so much that RM bosses are preparing the ground to quietly get rid of it, to revive it under another brand?
I got my £350 voucher today, so my earlier personal anger at not being paid has morphed into a more general anger that by buying off some staff with this emergency voucher payment - which will also help Angard minimize the risk of walk-outs in the last 3 days before Xmas - RM and Angard are somehow trying make the casuals feel lucky and grateful enough to receive the 350, and therefore less likely to show solidarity with the many other casuals who haven't yet seen a penny.
Many of us will be owed more than 350 anyway.
My advice is: Cash your vouchers in quick, before Angard goes into total meltdown post-Xmas, and casuals will be denied access to their former RM places of employment and no longer be able to count on the help of friendly and helpful managers who tried their best to help them (Yes, they do exist!)
Plus the breaking news posted by others that "a review [of Angard] is under way".
Usually in large organisations, this is followed by people muttering that "heads will roll".
Is this a hint that Angard fukced it up so much that RM bosses are preparing the ground to quietly get rid of it, to revive it under another brand?
I got my £350 voucher today, so my earlier personal anger at not being paid has morphed into a more general anger that by buying off some staff with this emergency voucher payment - which will also help Angard minimize the risk of walk-outs in the last 3 days before Xmas - RM and Angard are somehow trying make the casuals feel lucky and grateful enough to receive the 350, and therefore less likely to show solidarity with the many other casuals who haven't yet seen a penny.
Many of us will be owed more than 350 anyway.
My advice is: Cash your vouchers in quick, before Angard goes into total meltdown post-Xmas, and casuals will be denied access to their former RM places of employment and no longer be able to count on the help of friendly and helpful managers who tried their best to help them (Yes, they do exist!)