Furloughed workers : The 80% thing

[themailman]

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[Zicomurphy]

We are not going to be offered it, please read the original post properly.
Don't get your hopes up.

Hi POSTMAN,

I'm slightly confused about this. Our office, at present, is about 95% staffed.
We must be spending at least 30% of budget paying people for hours not worked - full time and part time passengers are starting in the street, paying out 6-8 hours a day for 4 hours work. Huge drop off in junk/marketing mail plus door to doors. Parcels beginning to level off.

Here are 2 quotes from the gov.uk site:

If you cannot maintain your current workforce because your operations have been severely affected by coronavirus (COVID-19), you can furlough employees and apply for a grant that covers 80% of their usual monthly wage costs, up to £2,500 a month, plus the associated Employer National Insurance contributions and pension contributions (up to the level of the minimum automatic enrolment employer pension contribution) on that subsidised furlough pay.


You do not need to place all your employees on furlough.

With that in mind, it seems obvious (I've been syaing this for 4 weeks), that in our office at least, it will be trimmed down to driving staff only - or are RM not looking to do this type of thing on a office by office basis?

Thanks.

I get the impression my office is coping a lot better than some others but every day we have walks that are not going out or only half a walk being delivered or only parcels being taken and all mail left in frame. The last thing we need is less staff. It’s better to have people working reduced hours than no hours.

You could argue we should only be accepting essential mail right now or that there is a need to have less staff because of health and safety reasons but all the time we have the volume of parcels we are seeing right now and with the number of staff off sick/on leave every week I can’t see the business thinking there is any reason to reduce staffing levels any further.

[Zicomurphy]

Also, if a particular office hasn’t been impacted that badly in terms of sick levels and coping with the volume of work they are receiving they always have the option of loaning staff to offices that are struggling.

[TrueBlueTerrier]

We are not going to be offered it, please read the original post properly.
Don't get your hopes up.

Hi POSTMAN,

I'm slightly confused about this. Our office, at present, is about 95% staffed.
We must be spending at least 30% of budget paying people for hours not worked - full time and part time passengers are starting in the street, paying out 6-8 hours a day for 4 hours work. Huge drop off in junk/marketing mail plus door to doors. Parcels beginning to level off.

Here are 2 quotes from the gov.uk site:

If you cannot maintain your current workforce because your operations have been severely affected by coronavirus (COVID-19), you can furlough employees and apply for a grant that covers 80% of their usual monthly wage costs, up to £2,500 a month, plus the associated Employer National Insurance contributions and pension contributions (up to the level of the minimum automatic enrolment employer pension contribution) on that subsidised furlough pay.


You do not need to place all your employees on furlough.

With that in mind, it seems obvious (I've been syaing this for 4 weeks), that in our office at least, it will be trimmed down to driving staff only - or are RM not looking to do this type of thing on a office by office basis?

Thanks.

Royal mail are not even contemplating furloughing, neither nationally or locally.

[themailman]

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[GRS]

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We are not going to be offered it, please read the original post properly.
Don't get your hopes up.

Hi POSTMAN,

I'm slightly confused about this. Our office, at present, is about 95% staffed.
We must be spending at least 30% of budget paying people for hours not worked - full time and part time passengers are starting in the street, paying out 6-8 hours a day for 4 hours work. Huge drop off in junk/marketing mail plus door to doors. Parcels beginning to level off.

Here are 2 quotes from the gov.uk site:

If you cannot maintain your current workforce because your operations have been severely affected by coronavirus (COVID-19), you can furlough employees and apply for a grant that covers 80% of their usual monthly wage costs, up to £2,500 a month, plus the associated Employer National Insurance contributions and pension contributions (up to the level of the minimum automatic enrolment employer pension contribution) on that subsidised furlough pay.


You do not need to place all your employees on furlough.

With that in mind, it seems obvious (I've been syaing this for 4 weeks), that in our office at least, it will be trimmed down to driving staff only - or are RM not looking to do this type of thing on a office by office basis?

Thanks.

[/b]Royal mail are not even contemplating furloughing, neither nationally or locally.

Good. That’s a relief!!!

[k979aaa]

We are not going to be offered it, please read the original post properly.
Don't get your hopes up.

Hi POSTMAN,

I'm slightly confused about this. Our office, at present, is about 95% staffed.
We must be spending at least 30% of budget paying people for hours not worked - full time and part time passengers are starting in the street, paying out 6-8 hours a day for 4 hours work. Huge drop off in junk/marketing mail plus door to doors. Parcels beginning to level off.

Here are 2 quotes from the gov.uk site:

If you cannot maintain your current workforce because your operations have been severely affected by coronavirus (COVID-19), you can furlough employees and apply for a grant that covers 80% of their usual monthly wage costs, up to £2,500 a month, plus the associated Employer National Insurance contributions and pension contributions (up to the level of the minimum automatic enrolment employer pension contribution) on that subsidised furlough pay.


You do not need to place all your employees on furlough.

With that in mind, it seems obvious (I've been syaing this for 4 weeks), that in our office at least, it will be trimmed down to driving staff only - or are RM not looking to do this type of thing on a office by office basis?

Thanks.

Royal mail are not even contemplating furloughing, neither nationally or locally.

Is that determined by the companies (as a whole) financial situation? i.e. more offices making money than losing money. Thanks.

It's because were are overwhelmed by work even letters have gone up in the last month why would they turn down business. But this 2 meter thing is no good for us all in this business infection will be rife within a week or two parcels are more infected than the great and the good in your supermarkets!