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03/11/2009

Union point to regulation 7 of the conduct of Employment Agencies

The CWU now plans to launch a court case against Royal Mail’s management if it continues to use 30,000 agency staff. The CWU have claimed under regulation 7 of the Conduct if Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003, “An employment business may not supply a temporary worker to a hirer to replace an individual taking part in an official strike or any other official industrial dispute”. The fine for such activity is £5000 per individual.

The GMB have written to Business Secretary Lord Mandelson, asking him to look into the behaviour of these recruitment agencies, especially ones in Slough, Bristol and Dartford. This request was also backed with a warning that if the government did not look into this matter it will look at enforcement proceedings against the department and the Government for not acting accordingly.

Royal Mail continue there stance that the 30,000 staff is to firstly supplement the festive period, when there is naturally more mail to process and secondly to reduce the number of letters delayed. Royal Mail also provided figures of 25 million post still delayed due to the strike but this has fallen from 50 million post as a result of taking on the extra agency staff to reduce the backlog.

The CWU has also threaten further strikes on Friday and Monday unless the deadlock is broken over jobs, pay and modernisation.

Filed under: employment agencies,recruitment agencies — admin @ 15:59

20/10/2009

Recruitment Agencies have been warned about supplying the Royal Mail

Recruitment Agencies have been put into an awkward position in relation to supplying the Royal Mail, as the leader of the Communication Workers Union (CWE), Billy Hayes, stressed that hiring extra staff to replace existing staff that are on strike had been outlawed.

The CWE is outraged that the Royal Mail have hired 30,000 temporary workers, although Royal Mail have claimed that the hiring of temps is not to replace any person that is on strike but to handle the backlog of undelivered post from this week’s nationwide strike.

Recruitment Agencies are concerned as they have been told by the CWE to be aware of the law, which forbids any employer or employment agencies to use staff to break a lawful dispute. This could lead to public sector recruitment agencies that are supply staff to suffer fines of up to £5,000 per worker for every day they are supplied.

Royal Mail have informed Lord Mandelson, the business secretary, that has to enforce these laws, that the extra staff is for clearing old post and not for replacing any worker. Royal Mail also explained that around Christmas time they usually hire an additional 15,000 temporary staff to handle the extra work load.

Lord Mandelson could not hide his anger with the CWU and believes’ they are obstructing the Royal Mail from a much needed modernisation, even going as far as to say this matter is `life or death` for the postal service. Mr Hayes on the other hand has said he understands there could be job loses in the industry but wants there to be a compromise.

Is there a solution? At the moment it is difficult to see where it will come from. The biggest problem may be if these strikes continue, the Royal Mail may not be able to survive and if this is the case then you could see the Royal Mail being sold to foreign investors.

Filed under: city recruitment agencies,employment agencies,public sector recruitment agencies — admin @ 10:33
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