4 hour Permanent contracts

[Jimi]

Mailsorter - Shrewsbury Job id: 31479113
Location: Shrewsbury (SY1)
Salary: Competitive
Company: Royal Mail
Job type: Permanent
Date posted: 26/07/2007 18:04


Description: Reliable and punctual? Do you enjoy working as a team to meet deadlines and achieve results?

Royal Mail are now recruiting Mail Sorters. If you have the flexibility to undertake several different tasks during your shift, can work to tight deadlines and would enjoy working in a loud and busy environment, then you are the type of person we're looking for.

Contract type: Permanent

Hours of work: 4 hours on Monday 18:00 to 22:00 but may be flexed upwards as required.

This role involves standing for long periods of time, sorting mail either by machine or by hand. Your main role will be segregating the mail and bundling it into bags, so it can be delivered to the proper addresses. You must be able to lift and carry mailbags and boxes weighing up to 11kg and push containers weighing 250kg.

We require you to be flexible and adaptable as you are likely to undertake several different tasks in one shift.

Does this appeal to you? Do you have the drive and dedication we need and do you want to work for a company that has stood the test of time? If so, this position may be for you. Royal Mail has been around for 350 years and delivers to every address in the UK.

Royal Mail provides a competitive salary and offers an excellent benefits package.

Please note, once our maximum number of applications has been reached, this vacancy will be withdrawn.

Sounds Great to me 4 hours a week it must be a great place to work i think not,what a load of Sh1t who would come to work on a 4 hour contract, the ultimate flexable workforce you dont have to worry about the pension or sick payments as they only do 4 hours on contract; they may be doing 70 hours a week, week in week out but come time for leave sorry mate back on 4 hours pay as that is your contracted hours.

[baldrick]

That's the way RM want's to go. Get rid of all the stroppy unionised full time staff and bring in people on minimum hour contracts who will be at their beck and call, scared to take time off sick (they won't be able to afford to be sick anyway), and with basically unpaid holiday entitlement. And of course they won't be getting much in the way of a pension.

[F0zziebear]

Downstream Access means that large amounts of outward mail is now done by competitors. The only way to make the Mail Centre/Processing part is to employ people for a short period of time during peak traffic, which is between 18:00-22:00. There isn't enough volume between 2pm-6pm to justify a full shift.

You may not agree with this, buts the current reality. Lots of Poles will be happy to do this and then going cleaning buildings during the night.

[evilc]

Downstream Access means that large amounts of outward mail is now done by competitors. The only way to make the Mail Centre/Processing part is to employ people for a short period of time during peak traffic, which is between 18:00-22:00. There isn't enough volume between 2pm-6pm to justify a full shift.

You may not agree with this, buts the current reality. Lots of Poles will be happy to do this and then going cleaning buildings during the night.

It should be offered to permanent staff as s/a first.

[DGP1]

Surely there are already staff on that shift (even if staff leave then (according to FOZZ and there is a reduction in work)) to cover the work???????


Hope that makes sense

[Bloke7]

And what a massive saving they make on tax and national insurance on 4 hour contracts. Other than strikes, something more needs to be done to show this firm that they are pushing it too far now.

[ROCKY]

welcome to the future folks,i might volunteer i could do it on my way home from the pub

[norbet colon]

&

And what a massive saving they make on tax and national insurance on 4 hour contracts. Other than strikes, something more needs to be done to show this firm that they are pushing it too far now.

Welcome to the surreal world of mail centres !, that's been common practice for years . Treat 'em mean & keep 'em keen., Divide and Conquer!> I . on Inward they reduced the TC 40hr night shifts to 20hr evenings but the shift mgr was cute enough to say it's the full timers going to the Union , wanting to stitch the docket up amongst themselves ; get the CWU to run the Post Office for them. So that was deliberately done to put the area rep in a corner. There's a lot of bad feeling about the Union reps it's they sit on things , it's all docket & full timers , but there's even more about Royal Mail!..
Shift mgrs are not allowed to make this work shecdy or docket because of too many failures on meter, so it was more AGs , the idea is to dilute the stroppy unionised full timers as someone put it .That factionalism has a lot to do with losing the 2003 strike ballot .

[blackadder]

remember girls the union is subbing the NEW LABOUR PARTY otherwise known as tories mark 2. and this load of s**t wana get rid of us.

[TrueBlueTerrier]

remember girls the union is subbing the NEW LABOUR PARTY otherwise known as tories mark 2. and this load of s**t wana get rid of us.

New Labour - every time I see that phrase I always read it as Neo Tory.

[norbet colon]

remember girls the union is subbing the NEW LABOUR PARTY otherwise known as tories mark 2. and this load of s**t wana get rid of us.

New Labour - every time I see that phrase I always read it as Neo Tory.

That's Asda stuff RM are planning , wonder where that "idea" came from . They know they'll get battered on Mon if they take out w/e collections & duties . Initially it was adopt the tory's clothes ,now it's be like them, to neutralize them & keep them out ; all about the papers.Gordon's one party state, many have been trots & tankies in thier youth, the policies change but the mentality stays the same. :lfo An antagonistic propoganda plant on *******l talked of untapped resources a while back.

[bigsharkboy]

our ex manager was offering 1 hour contracts to new entrants to cover sick and holidays
was trying to get one of them to join the union when he dropped this bombshell if hes not needed he gets paid a hr a week if then after say a month they bring him in then he had to work 4 hrs before earning any money as he had banked those hours

as this was brought in by exec action by our EX DUM we agree to ballot the office after reg stage 3 disagreement and the 1hr contracts were ripped up and our old DUM was moved to another office and the guy is now on a 20hr contract

:lfo :cfo

[DirtyHarry]

Downstream Access means that large amounts of outward mail is now done by competitors. The only way to make the Mail Centre/Processing part is to employ people for a short period of time during peak traffic, which is between 18:00-22:00. There isn't enough volume between 2pm-6pm to justify a full shift.

You may not agree with this, buts the current reality. Lots of Poles will be happy to do this and then going cleaning buildings during the night.

Lots of Poles will be happy to do this ? ............ Happy ? .......... Christ almighty , does nobody see a storm brewing on the horizon ?

[F0zziebear]

This country as especially London has survived on exploting low wage new immigrants. If you chart Mount Pleasant's history you will see recent immigrants end up running the place until the new wave come in.

They are happy until they assimilate and realise they can get higher wages, unionise, and then we find another foreign country to exploit.

C'est la vie

[gspot01]

Can see recruitment for the four hour shifts bein that bad that we might have a case for all the local junkies and burglars and murderers doin it on their community service

SERVIN THE PUBLIC, SERVICING YOUR SELLABLES TO PAY FOR OUR HABIT.

GOOD THING IS THEY CAN STOP DOIN POLICE CHECKS CAUSE THEY WILL KNOW BEFORE THEY SEND THEM OUT.