Revision

[Harrymonk]

Hi can anyone advise? we are going through a revision in our office so we can go to shared vans we have 3 work patterns at the moment where we work a five day week,a 9 day fortnight,and a 10hr day 4 day week. We were asked which shift pattern we wanted and we went for the 9 day fortnight now we have been told the we have to go back to a 5 day week as royal mail say the other shifts are not cost effective? but other offices who went through a revision can stick to the patterns they agreed to?
Cheers.

[fishtank]

Seems to be part of a new hard line direction RM are taking.
My advice...disagreement citing various breaches of the BT2010 agreement and withdrawal from the revision process.
This is going to get messy.....


National Agreement States
Page 17 Introduction And Key Objectives
It means creating a fresh role for Delivery employees through the introduction of flexible working practices, improved attendance patterns (including fewer Saturdays), a better work-life balance, and by continuing to provide reasonable levels of take home pay.

Page 24 Attendance Patterns and Duty Structures
It is jointly recognised that the end product of duty revisions and their successful deployment are paramount to the success of this agreement, employee and customer satisfaction and the future success of Royal Mail. This will be achieved where duty structures and attendance patterns are innovative and meet the aspirations and needs of both employees and the company.
Best practice in this area will be jointly discussed and shared at regional and national level and will be used as a source of information to assist others.
As part of the operational transformation the vast majority of full time delivery duties will start no later than 0700.

Page 25
Family friendly duties and attendance patterns including religious holidays and requirements for time off will also form part of local discussions at the weekly resourcing meetings and during the revisions process.

Page 25 Saturday Attendances
In addition to the above it is jointly recognised that Saturday attendances and in particular the number of Saturdays worked require special attention in order to meet the aspirations of employees and the needs of the business.
In recognition of this Royal Mail and CWU commit to providing more Saturday off options as part of improved attendance patterns for delivery employees
Royal Mail and CWU commit to achieving at least 1 in 4 Saturdays off for the majority of employees (including reserves) during the roll out of the operational transformation programme. In some circumstances this may be exceeded utilising jointly identified options to provide 1 Saturday off in 2 or 3.
Progress on all the issues/objectives above will be jointly monitored and reviewed at national level on an ongoing basis.

CWU Response
No agreement should be given locally if the revision does not provide at least 1 in 4 Saturdays off. Do not change Saturday attendances unless members get more Saturdays off. Register disagreement, where necessary unilaterally or on a Point Of Principle.

[obscurityknocks]

We have just been told by yet another new planner that the duty options we voted on wont work and they are going to come back with another one. The more i hear around here and from friends at other offices rm are really making a huge mess of revisions and its actually costing money (eg, overtime, cut offs, early starts to get people out on time) rather than making any savings.

[DirtyHarry]

Senior management need to remember the old adage, you can't make a silk purse out of a Sow's ear.

[mandelsons_toenail]

Hi can anyone advise? we are going through a revision in our office so we can go to shared vans we have 3 work patterns at the moment where we work a five day week,a 9 day fortnight,and a 10hr day 4 day week. We were asked which shift pattern we wanted and we went for the 9 day fortnight now we have been told the we have to go back to a 5 day week as royal mail say the other shifts are not cost effective? but other offices who went through a revision can stick to the patterns they agreed to?
Cheers.

Is this confirmed or just speculation at the minute monk?

At a guess speculation but we can never trust rm.

[Harrymonk]

Thanks guys i will check with our rep?