Joint Statement Delivery: Scotland

[fishtank]

In line with the new national Agreement between Royal Mail and CWU-Agenda for Growth, Stability and Long term Success 2014-the Royal Mail Delivery Management team and CWU in Scotland are committed to working together to bring this agreement to life on a consistent basis.

Our ambition is to continue to improve performance, professionalise the delivery operation and crucially ensure that our people working in delivery are treated fairly and with dignity and respect in the workplace. It is our intention that our people will work safely and deliver excellent costomer service at all times. We will ensure that our people will feel valued and treated with respect in an environment where workload is allocated fairly and efficiently on a daily basis.

In terms of professionalising the operation, we want to increasingly standardise processes, procedures and compliance with the agreed ways of working. Listed below are four areas we see an immediate opportunity to improve now that the business transformation revisions have been completed.

1. Weekly Resource meetings- These meetings between the local DOM and CWU rep must take place every week, giving people in the office clear early sight of the work they will be scheduled to perform the following week. By using the principle of resourcing to workload fairly and efficiently, we will allocate tasks on an individual basis and explain to people the rationale behind the decisions that affect them.

2. Start Time and Meal Reliefs- Our people will be expected to start their duty at the planned time and not before, Eg If your start time is 0700hrs you should sign in and be ready to start work at 0700hrs. If you are LTFT you will be expected to sign on and be ready to start work at your planned time on a daily basis. It will not be acceptable for any colleague to start work before their planned time unless authorised by their line manager on the day and is covered by either normal overtime arrangements or flexible working in line with the Pay and Modernisation Agreement 2007. We expect all staff to take their meal breaks in line with their duty structure. As a minimum standard all staff will be expected to take an element of their planned meal relief before they leave on delivery.

3. Using Delivery Method Equipment- Royal Mail has made a substantial investment in Lightweight Trolleys, HTCs, PDAs and additional vans in the delivery operation to help to compete in the parcel market and also take the weight off the shoulder of our delivery postmen and women. We expect all delivery staff to use the nominated equipment for their walks every day.

4. Cars on delivery- All new delivery routes post transformation will have been designed to perform the delivery operation using the designated equipment, either HCT or operating from a Royal Mail vehicle supported by the use of a lightweight trolly where appropriate. The practice of using private cars on delivery ceased in all delivery units on the introduction of the transformation revision where methods have been introduced. This includes all travel to and from delivery. Therefore no colleague will be allowed to use their private car during duty time going forward.

Both parties will work together over the coming months to ensure compliance to these standards is acheived on a consistent basis. Both the Agenda For Growth Agreement and previous national agreements commit us to work flexibly and we will work together to acheve this without compromising on compliance to core standards.

Signed by
Paul Kelly Delivery Director Scotland
Stuart McIntosh
Rab Storrie
CWU Divisional Rep Scotland

[hans solo]

what about return to office
we expect (but do not insist)
an element of break ie 5 mins and im off ha f***ing ha
the mgmt in west scotland are laughing at this and doing what they want
they dont apply rules only bend them

[dvbuk55]

I'm not in Scotland and I haven't seen this in writing in my area BUT speaking to a manager today much of this document was contained in our conversation. In his words they have a gun held to their head maybe we'll see how many managers have the bottle.

[clashcityrocker]

One delivery director signed it and 2 Divisional reps.
Isn't there another delivery director? Is he singing from the same song sheet?

[P13]

One delivery director signed it and 2 Divisional reps.
Isn't there another delivery director? Is he singing from the same song sheet?

The delivery director who did sign it is allegedly leaving the business soon

[BoltonPostie]

One delivery director signed it and 2 Divisional reps.
Isn't there another delivery director? Is he singing from the same song sheet?

and then they all went for a game of golf and a slap up meal.

[newtimes]

What happens if there is a Yes result and RM is taken back into public ownership in Scotland. Are the employee shares returned or are they bought back. If bought back when would the employees get the money, If they got the money less than 3 to 5 years would it be to the advantage to vote Yes to get a wad of cash in the pocket. With the trend to vote for the money how many posties are there in Scotland, cash for votes.

[Chelseablue]

Let Go bk to an earlier start time to actually get people in for the packets ,after all we are a parcel company now!

[plymouth3]

No shares would change hands, RM would just release all Scotland offices from our ownership. Scottish employees would lose the shares.

I expect with the amount of rural deliveries in Scotland it is loss making and therefore the city boys would be happy to lose Scotland.

Their would have to be some charge both ways for cross border deliveries.

[DGP1]

It's never going to happen, too many managers don't want to do these things because it is too much work for them.

[Danelectro]

Offices im my area are now imposing the start times and so far sticking to it.I voted against the new agreement but to walk into a delivery office at my start time as I did last week and be met with a sea of empty frames was quite a sight...they said it couldn't be done!....

[eldritch1987]

Got this from another thread on meal breaks -

"Employers can say when employees take rest breaks during work time as long as:

the break is taken in one go somewhere in the middle of the day (not at the beginning or end)
workers are allowed to spend it away from their desk or workstation (ie away from where they actually work)

It doesn’t count as a rest break if an employer says an employee should go back to work before their break is finished."

So can they or can't they make us take our break so early in the day?

[newtimes]

No shares would change hands, RM would just release all Scotland offices from our ownership. Scottish employees would lose the shares.

I expect with the amount of rural deliveries in Scotland it is loss making and therefore the city boys would be happy to lose Scotland.

Their would have to be some charge both ways for cross border deliveries.

Thank you for your reply to my question, what I am finding both camps of No and Yes will NOT answer questions out side their script, my understanding is the shares belong to a person, so it would be very unusual for them to be taken away from them by the state, big implications it that is going to happen. The Yes No tribes are minorities in their own rights, that’s what’s wrong with this whole debate, the bigger picture is how we as a small island are going to improve our living conditions for all of us.

[Chelseablue]

So does that mean you can take you're meal break anywhere you like?.. Can they force you to take it in the office after Uve finished? Has anyone got anything official on this ,must be somewhere ?.

[Glenno]

So does that mean you can take you're meal break anywhere you like?.. Can they force you to take it in the office after Uve finished? Has anyone got anything official on this ,must be somewhere ?.

5. MEAL BREAKS




Introduction

This agreement commences from 3 April 2000, and establishes a new national standard in relation to meal relief entitlements, together with a process for all offices to achieve it. This agreement replaces all existing national and local agreements on meal relief entitlements and provision. The new entitlements will be introduced alongside SWW as part of the performance improvement programme agreed within the context of PBS.

Fill-time meal break entitlements

All full-time employees working in delivery offices on a 40-hour gross week over five or six days will generally have a standard entitlement to 40 minutes meal break per day and 30 minutes on the shorter day (normally Saturday) of a six day attendance, exclusive of any grace breaks (see below).

All full-time employees working in Mail Centres on a 40-hour gross week, generally over five days, will have a standard entitlement to 40 minutes meal break per day (this means that up to 60 minutes per day total breaks can be provided by scheduling Relaxation Breaks by joint local agreement – see below).

Other full-time employees on standard attendance patterns will have the same entitlements as in delivery.

Where there are unusual duty patterns (e.g. long or short attendance patterns, or jobs with fewer than attendances per week) the meal break entitlement will be determined on a daily basis for each attendance from the table of entitlements below.

Where the proper entitlement (i.e. based on the national standard and the table below) is currently exceeded, meal breaks in the offices concerned will be harmonised with the standard over the three-year life of the performance Bonus Scheme. This will be implemented in equal stages up to April 2002 as part of the joint revision programme.

Meal Brakes for non-standard, as part-time and extended attendances

Part-time jobs, and full-time jobs with non-standard attendance patterns, will attract meal breaks for each daily attendance as followed, reflecting a generally pro-rata entitlement to the national weekly standard:

Attendance length total breaks probable pattern

Less than 2 hours 30 minutes none (a 10 min grace break should be provided if work permits)
2 hours 30 to 3 hours 10 mins 10
3 hours 1 to 3 hours 30 15 mins 15
3 hours 31 to 4 hours 59 20 mins 20
5 hours to 7 hours 30 mins 30
7 hours 1 to 8 hours 59 40 mins 40 or 20 + 20
9 hours to 10 hours 59 50 mins 30 + 20
11 hours to 12 hours 59 60 mins 40 + 20 or 30 + 30
13 hours or longer 70 mins 40 + 30

Pending completion of the discussions intended to conform with the requirements of the Working Time Regulations, any exceptional attendances of 15 hours or longer will attract an entitlement of 80 minutes.

The actual pattern of breaks within these rules will be agreed locally.

Breaks at the beginning or end of attendance

Where an attendance is provided with more than one break, the second break may be scheduled at the beginning or end, in which case attendance is not required solely for booking on or off. A single break should not be scheduled at the beginning or end of the attendance.