A Freedom of Information Request has been made about Angard

[TrueBlueTerrier]

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Dear Sir

Please provide the following information:

1 The percentage shareholding that Royal Mail Group (or
subsidiary or affiliated business) ("RM") holds
in Angard Staffing Solutions Limited ("Angard")

2 The names of the Directors of Angard

3 The percentage shareholding of Angard held by other
than Item 1 above, and the names of those shareholders

4 The number of casual workers taken on by RM for the
Christmas break 2010-11

5 The standard pay rate for casual workers Item 4 above

6 The number of complaints received by RM in relation to
pay, from the casual workers Item 4 above

7 The number of casual workers taken on by Angard for
the Christmas break 2011-12

8 The standard pay rate for casual workers Item 7 above

9 The number of complaints received by Angard in
relation to pay, from the casual workers Item 7 above

10 The contact telephone number for Angard that is not an
0845 number

11 The name and contact details of the director of RM
responsible for the contract between RM and Angard
by which the personnel Item 7 were places with RM

12 The name and contact details of the director of RM
responsible for the shareholding Item 1 above

13 The identification of any natural person falling
within the ambit of Items 2 and 3 that
(1) has been or presently holds employment with RM
and
(2) has been or is presently a director of RM.

For the avoidance of doubt this is a requisition under the Freedom
of Information Act.

[TrueBlueTerrier]

Should be an interesting reply.

[fishtank]

To be fair most of that information is already in the public domain.
With regards to complaints they might try to pull the "commercially sensitive" move.

[TrueBlueTerrier]

With regards to complaints they might try to pull the "commercially sensitive" move.

Being one of the "sad" ones I watch the FOI requests and recently thats been a standard get out clause for them.

[fishtank]

Being one of the "sad" ones I watch the FOI requests and recently thats been a standard get out clause for them.

This company spends an absolute fortune on PR "firefighting".
If they could only learn that the best PR is not to make an arse of yourself in the first place things might be a bit easier and cheaper...and they wouldn't need to hide behind blatant lies.

[jerseyspice]

i await their response to you with interest

[csm]

A pity that they where not also asked to divulge the total number/proportion of staff who had pay issues as I would like to know just what constitutes a small minority in Royal Mails eyes.

[mail_watcher]

The "small minority" was every single temporary staff that I worked with. Surely nobody who received that silly letter who ever talked to anybody else, could be fooled.

[Verging]

Has this already been sent or are you asking for comments before sending it?

Any chance of asking a question as to how many casuals are eligible for the 12 week benefits of Agency Worker Regulations and what those benefits are. I am now in my 16th week and nobody can tell me what they are and nobody seems to know who to contact to find out.

[fishtank]

Has this already been sent or are you asking for comments before sending it?

It went in yesterday.
They have 20 working days to reply.

Under the Act you should expect a reply from us to be sent by 13/02/2012

[lord croker]

Q. 1 The percentage shareholding that Royal Mail Group (or
subsidiary or affiliated business) ("RM") holds
in Angard Staffing Solutions Limited ("Angard")

A. 100%

Q. 2 The names of the Directors of Angard

A. JOHN DUNCAN - Director
KATHLEEN ANNE HARMESTON - Director

[markadam1962]

The "small minority" was every single temporary staff that I worked with. Surely nobody who received that silly letter who ever talked to anybody else, could be fooled.

I have been trying to get most of the people I work with to visit this site. You would be surprised at the amount of people that don't and that's not just casuals but regulars as well. Some people despite 24 hour news, internet, iPhones even newspapers do not see the outside world from their own little bubbles. The internet, blog sites and forums like this are the most powerful tool we have ever had to communicate . This Christmas must have shocked RM by the actions of people from this site through shared experiences, getting things aired. The inept statements that were made by RM managers (never Angard) were shocking. The only people that believed that were those that chose not to make the effort to find out what was going on, they are known as "sheeple".

Good luck with the FIR it should be an interesting read, that's if all the information is not withheld as its commercially sensitive. (then we dig deeper team!)

BTW Wikipedia is down today can anyone verify that David Beckham was the first man to step foot on the moon?

[pdibq]

David Beckham wasn't the first man to step foot on the moon... that was Neil Armstrong. Then Neil got raped by a moon alien, David was born (moonchild), and sent to earth.
You can find that story on wiki!

[hantsman]

RM will get out of some of these questions because they will use " it will cost us more than £450" Good effort but you have to ask very clear and short questions using FOI requests.

[1979]

I don't think it's legally valid to make an FoI request to Angard. They're a private company, albiet one owned by a public body, and FoI only works for public organisations. It might be better submitting an FoI to the RM for items 1,4,6,11,12, and deriving the rest from Companies House and more substantive legal requests.