Agency Workers

[hermesetas]

Agency workers currently covering delivery duties working from 9 till 4 in my office. Only having to tie up, drive to first delivery point and be replenished by van driver. Wage adverised is £11.14 p/h plus Manpower's cut of maybe 50% so RM paying 35 hours at approx £17 p/h. This to do the same work, if not less prep, in more time, than someone who has been in the job for over 15 years but can't get a contract beyond 30 hours. Obviously things are stretched and strained at the moment and I'm aware that the agency work is only temporary. but it highlights short-sightedness of the company and inability of union to press for long term part timers to be made up. The union has long neglected part timers and I fear this will have an increasing impact as things progress.

[centenaryman]

weve been assigned 2 "casuals"....d.o.m says all offices near us have 2 each....he didnt seem happy about it???

they are working afternoons i believe in ours i think...so that theres vans back for them possibly

[pex]

We used 1 agency worker last Xmas for approx 2 weeks and none since then, all the required cover since then has been put out as overtime.

[ScousePostie]

We had about 8 agency workers in our office up to Christmas. Half of them disappeared straight after Christmas but the rest are still here. Their hours are 2-5pm.

[twoloops]

We still have 5 or 6 agency staff, most of our posties just work their hours, our manger says they show more effort than us

[wacko74]

Don't RM actually own Angarad (or whatever the agency is called)?

[yellowbelly]

Don't RM actually own Angarad (or whatever the agency is called)?

Correct, from their own web site:

Who We Are
Angard Staffing Solutions Limited (Angard) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Royal Mail Group (Royal Mail), operated by Reed Specialist Recruitment Limited (Reed).

[phronsias]

Hi
You could not make this up! a temp just delivered our mail (to my home) and its for the next road

[twoloops]

What do you expect, they have had no training, I find parcels left all over the shop on my round when the agency staff have done an early run.

[Coffee lover]

Agency workers currently covering delivery duties working from 9 till 4 in my office. Only having to tie up, drive to first delivery point and be replenished by van driver. Wage adverised is £11.14 p/h plus Manpower's cut of maybe 50% so RM paying 35 hours at approx £17 p/h. This to do the same work, if not less prep, in more time, than someone who has been in the job for over 15 years but can't get a contract beyond 30 hours. Obviously things are stretched and strained at the moment and I'm aware that the agency work is only temporary. but it highlights short-sightedness of the company and inability of union to press for long term part timers to be made up. The union has long neglected part timers and I fear this will have an increasing impact as things progress.

Well they don’t want to take anyone on permanently at the moment until all the revision done I’m guessing they’ll have to wait to see what the staffing levels are needed after that, so it’s good that there’s only agency workers at the moment so they can be hired and fired as and when which will protect our permanent members of staff jobs

[Marshamp11]

Agency workers currently covering delivery duties working from 9 till 4 in my office. Only having to tie up, drive to first delivery point and be replenished by van driver. Wage adverised is £11.14 p/h plus Manpower's cut of maybe 50% so RM paying 35 hours at approx £17 p/h. This to do the same work, if not less prep, in more time, than someone who has been in the job for over 15 years but can't get a contract beyond 30 hours. Obviously things are stretched and strained at the moment and I'm aware that the agency work is only temporary. but it highlights short-sightedness of the company and inability of union to press for long term part timers to be made up. The union has long neglected part timers and I fear this will have an increasing impact as things progress.

If I was offered £17 an hour I might consider doing some overtime.

[Skuse]

Agency staff are even doing collections now ....dangerous times ahead

[Deadly]

Agency staff are even doing collections now ....dangerous times ahead

I think they are doing the priority weekend box collections for the covid tests.

[DavidH70]

I'm Agency,working via Manpower, started in November as a casual, put my head down and did what was asked and more in some cases, just been offered a contract.

[POSTMAN]

I'm Agency,working via Manpower, started in November as a casual, put my head down and did what was asked and more in some cases, just been offered a contract.

Well done, keep us informed with how you're getting on.