JoeWagg wrote:Right. Just wanting to know the answer to a simple question which I've been given a few different answers.
If you start employment at Royal Mail on the same day as a bunch of other people, who has the most seniority when it comes to say a repick/vacancies etc? We got told at the induction that the person who was the oldest automatically ranks highest re seniority in such a scenario but people at work beg to differ. Help.
Yes it's date of birth, the Way Forward Agreement stating "13.1 Where several employees start on the same day, the following factors will determine the relative order: firstly, any periods of Post Office service on other grades, secondly, date of selection and, thirdly, date of birth".
When the Age Discrimination law came in Royal Mail wrote the union amending a number of National Agreements which under their legal department breach the new law.
The first was that in age order between 55-65 could opt for VR first under MTSF
The second was than anyone between 50 and 60 could keep pay protection 60 rather the than 3 year pay protection limit ( when BT2010 agreement came in they increased on certain pay protection to 5 years.
Equally the third one was that could no longer use age when deciding who was more senior.
It's often done on the toss of a coin these days.
The reasons are other PO service is unusual and not normally relevant, date of birth is legally "dubious" and date of selection previous to 2000 is difficult to provide because HR records of these details appear to be pretty sparse.
In most cases a bit of common sense is what's needed.
