R M admits 'small number' of temp postal staff not paid

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Royal Mail admits ‘small number’ of temporary postal staff have not been paid

DOZENS of temporary staff hired to help sort Christmas post for Royal Mail have been left unpaid for two weeks, they have said.

Up to 60 workers who signed up to the Angard agency and started work on November 28 were told they would work one week in lieu, but expected their first pay slip on Friday, December 9.

Anthony Hyatt, 52, works as a motorbike instructor, but took on the temporary work for four weeks and said he and his fellow workers were all owed about £200 for their efforts, working eight-hour shifts over the last two weeks.

He said: “I signed up for a bit of extra money around Christmas, but one of my co-workers has been out of work for two years, and travels up from Leicester.

“We spoke to one of the managers at Royal Mail who said they were aware of the situation but didn’t explain it to us. They said they’d got the details to the agency in in time and said the agency was working into the night to get the money into our accounts by Saturday (December 10).”

Anthony said: “I was offered a job doing some courier work, but turned it down to work at the Royal Mail. I might be lucky and be able to get the job back, but there’s no guarantee.

“I still haven’t been paid, so I left. My understanding is people in other branches are owed over £600 in wages.”

Anthony quit his temporary post last Monday, but by yesterday he said he had still to receive the wages owed to him Another worker said: “I would say 99 per cent of the 180-plus temp workers here at York have not been paid at all. Others have been paid an absolute pittance – amounts such as £3.75 for a full week’s work.”

She said some staff had walked out over the problem.

Royal Mail spokesman Heulyn Gwyn Davies said: “The majority of temporary staff have been paid on time and correctly. We are aware of some seasonal workers – a small proportion of the total – who have unfortunately not been paid when they should have been.

“We are urgently resolving this with our external supplier and in most cases, the people concerned will be paid as quickly as possible. We are sorry for any inconvenience this has caused to any temporary worker.

“We do understand how important it is that they receive their correct pay on time.”

Mr Davies also said Royal Mail would still be delivering mail to all York customers on a daily basis, and no backlog had been caused by the problems.

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"Small number" ?!!!

And who's this external supplier again?!

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Do you think this will be in next months Courier ?

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I worked for Royal Mail for 37 years and was "withdrawn from normal duties" every year for 7 years as part of the local team to recruit AND pay
our Christmas Casuals.(Usually about 500 - 600 each year). My niece is currently employed as a Christmas Casual in Doncaster and she has just told me that neither she nor her colleagues have been paid for their work so far and nobody seems to be able to help them. Like most of these youngsters she was trying to earn some money to pay for Christmas presents but she is rapidly running out of shopping time. Having read through the various threads on this subject, it seems to me that Angard Staffing have taken on much more than they are capable of handling and it is high time that their managers got themselves sorted out and VERY QUICKLY. I bet they don't work for nothing !