Another 1 gets paid

[POSTMAN]

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THE Evening Post has saved the day for a Swansea teenager owed money for a Christmas job.

Cameron Davies spent two weeks working at the Royal Mail sorting office in Swansea in the run-up to Christmas.

The 16-year-old from Port Tennant believed his wages would go directly into his bank account at the end of each week.

But, by Monday January 16, he had only received £70.

Cameron's mother Nicola Fitzgerald contacted the Evening Post to explain her son was owed more than he was paid.

The Post contacted Royal Mail for a comment and later the same day Mrs Fitzgerald received a phone call confirming her son would receive the remaining £175 owed to him by Friday, February 24.

She said: "The only reason I got that phone call was because the Evening Post had inquired about the case." Mrs Fitzgerald said her son goes to Cefn Hengoed School and applied for his job in August last year.

She said: "He had seen something online with the Royal Mail and applied for it back in August. He just wanted to earn a bit of extra money.

"At the moment we are struggling to pay for things just as everyone else is.

"For him to have some extra money over Christmas meant he could go to the January sales and also get some experience of working."

A Royal Mail spokesman said: "We were aware of Mr Davies's case and we have been investigating the specific details of his claim.

"We can confirm that all outstanding payments will be made to him within a few days.

"We have worked hard to resolve all outstanding pay queries from seasonal workers who worked for us over the Christmas period and all workers were sent an individual statement relating to work they did for Royal Mail.

"This details the total hours they worked over the Christmas period, their pay rate, gross pay calculation and their method of payment.

"We are very confident that the overwhelming majority of our temporary Christmas workers have been paid on time and by the correct amount. We are committed to resolving any issues as quickly and fairly as possible.

"We are grateful to Mr Davies and to all our temporary workers for their hard work in the success of Royal Mail's Christmas operations.

"If anyone has any queries relating to their pay or payroll statement, they should contact Angard Staffing."

[wamdue]

Angard is an awful mess, and this is true of for others of course, but its an awful first job experince.

[Leonard69]

"and all workers were sent an individual statement relating to work they did for Royal Mail"

the spokesman failed to add:

"however most of these statements were based on inaccurate hours, incorrect rates of pay and a total failure to honour the terms of the contracts on which the workers were engaged. Fortunately for Royal Mail many of the employees were so desperate for work that they were prepared to continue working despite our failure to rectify the situation. A small number of employees had the audacity to issue ET1s against angard and a smaller number still refused to be intimidated by the aggressive and unjustified approach of our solicitors. We have had to pay these troublesome individuals correctly as what we had done was totally illegal but we have their addresses and they will find that their post arrives in future having been half eaten by the local dogs or smeared with excrement. How dare they expect to be treated according to the laws of the land? Don't they know that we are the Royal Mail and above such pettifogging regulations as the European Convention on Human Rights and the Agency Worker Regulations" . The spokesman then started frothing at the mouth and had to be sedated with a series of payments of 1p and £350 vouchers.