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  CORONAVIRUS DISCUSSION

LTB 469/20 Coronavirus - 'Covid-19 Test Kits' and 'Antibody Test Kits' - Mailings, Collections, Processing and Delivery - Updated/New Royal Mail Operations Risk Assessments (SAC1) & SSOWs

Extremely clinically vulnerable employees : There are local restrictions in place, so do they need to shield again?

LTB 472/20 - Royal Mail and CWU Joint Communication - Covid 19 Bespoke Weekend Priority Postbox Collections

MRM.COM : For conformation : Test and Trace We must keep on protecting each other - Stay alert, control the virus, save lives

Masks for indoor work

Everyone over 45 to stay home?

9am/1pm SD delivery times change on Mon 28

Dependants : If I need to take time off to care for a dependant, how will this absence be covered? : What guidance do I have to follow if one of my employee's children is sent home from school

2 managers with Covid

Cardiff MC covid-19 cases



  ROYAL MAIL EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENTS AT A GLANCE (UPDATED APR 2019)

Royal Mail employment policies are ideal for reps and colleagues as a quick guide to our full agreements. (Updated 2017)

Royal Mail have developed summaries on the agreements colleagues most frequently ask about. The at-a-glance summaries give an overview of the key parts of the policies so you can quickly find the information you need.

The policies are available from myroyalmail.com, the intranet and are also in the public domain through search engines, we have published them here for easy access, excuse the cheeky copy/paste, they include...

• Time off: annual holiday

• Time off: other leave

• Sick pay

• Attendance

• Being a parent

• Flexible working

See all the policies Here...

Registered members of the site have access to the full agreements in our downloads forum.




  MAIL CENTRES/PROCESSING/DISTRIBUTION

MRM.COM :Construction work is now underway on our second parcel hub
sorting on conveyor belts
Stage 3 time frame
What are the rules on managers working?
Quiet Mondays in Delivery Offices
MRM.COM : How having two PSMs running at once is helping South Midlands and Jubilee mail centres
LTB 406/20 - Mail Centre Processing - Alphanumeric Barcoding
Mail Centre gyms re-opening?
LTB 386/20 - Revised Royal Mail Coronavirus/Covid-19 Risk Assessments Following Revised Social Distancing Government Guidance (2M to 1M)
PSMs and FSMs
not on facebook

  CORONAVIRUS NEWS ARTICLES

Up to 10k fine for failure to self-isolate in England

Coronavirus: How does Covid-19 test-and-trace work? : England and Wales have launched a contact tracing app

Deep clean carried out at Fife Royal Mail office after worker tests positive for Covid-19

Dunfermline DO staff member tests positive

Three postal workers test positive at UK Royal Mail's Medway Mail Centre

App tells if office workers are not socially distanced

Three Royal Mail staff test positive for coronavirus at Medway Mail Centre

Lockdown interviews - Royal Mail worker

Letter to the editor: Thank you to our postman

India - COVID-positive postman infects 110 villagers in Telangana's Wanaparthy district

LATEST NEWS:

Citizens Advice suggests new address & collect service for UK's 'millions without mail'

"Royal Mail staff: tell us about working conditions"

Royal Mail's Se22 Service Is Branded a 'disaster' for Residents and Businesses

'There are only so many hours in the day' - North Staffordshire postie hits back after residents slam 'sporadic deliveries'

Shoppers warned to buy early for Christmas or miss out

Post vans attacked at Coleraine Royal Mail depot - 7 vans damaged

Peterborough posties vote for strike action after colleague sacked

UK TRADING UPDATE SUMMARY: Personal Group Lauds Royal Mail Contract

Royal Mail Special Delivery guarantee delivery times extended

ROYAL MAIL LAUNCHES NEW DAILY COLLECTION SERVICE FROM CUSTOMERS DOORS

ROYAL MAIL SHARES:

Cash in shares

Sainsbury's joins Royal Mail on billionaire's shopping list

Royal Mail should get good news in the post from regulator and unions, says broker

Hedge funds caught out by Royal Mail's share price rally as company surprises market with performance during coronavirus

The Royal Mail share price rises 31% to a 1-year high! Here's what I'd do now


COMPETITORS:

Liverpool-based delivery giant Yodel creates 3,000 jobs after 'dramatic' rise in online retail

Amazon workers sign up as Britain's first tech trade union launches

Revealed: evidence shows huge mail slowdowns after Trump ally took over

Amazon customer thanks delivery driver for hilarious attempt to hide parcel

Dozens of Amazon's own products have been reported as dangerous -- melting, exploding or even bursting into flames. Many are still on the market

Amazon pays 290m in UK tax as sales surge to 14bn

French post admits errors and aims to improve parcel service

Furey taps former Royal Mail boss, Moya Greene, Canada Post boss to lead economic renewal

Amazon fined by UK regulator over tardy documents release in Deliveroo probe

Brazilian postal workers wage bitter strike against wage cuts, privatization

AVERAGE PAY WHILE ON ANNUAL LEAVE:

LTB 289/20 - Average Pay on Annual Leave (Holiday Pay) - Royal Mail Group

LTB 243/20 - Average Pay on Annual Leave (Holiday Pay Claims) Against Royal Mail Group Limited

LTB 112/20 - AVERAGE PAY ON LEAVE : reference period used to calculate all holiday pay will increase from 12 weeks to 52 weeks

Update?

LTB 034/20 AVERAGE PAY ON ANNUAL LEAVE : CURRENT STATE OF EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS : ONGOING AND NEW CLAIMS :NEGOTIATIONS WITH RMG

POST OFFICE® NEWS:

Post Office Braces UK ISP Customers for Phone Price Hike

Horizon scandal: 'Justice delayed is justice denied,' Tory Lord tells Minister in House debate

Post Office rings changes with sale of telecoms arm

Ex counter staff at Haverhill Post Office said 'terrible attitude' of the company now running it forced him to quit

Post Office puts postmaster on board in aftermath of Horizon IT scandal

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