One of the biggest strikes of the year will be held on Thursday when Royal Mail workers, BT staff and Openreach engineers walk out in separate disputes over pay and conditions. Members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) are embroiled in long running rows with the companies and have already …
Read More »Royal Mail must pay £100,000 for ‘destroying’ whistleblower’s life | News
Royal Mail bosses should pay more than £100,000 to a former employee after they were found guilty of “destroying her life” when she made allegations of bonus fiddling. A judge said that if the postal service had a “shred of decency” it would pay Kam Jhuti her damages swiftly given …
Read More »Burnham-On-Sea Royal Mail post staff striking today in ongoing pay dispute
Burnham-On-Sea Royal Mail workers will strike again today (Thursday October 20th) as part a long-running dispute over pay and working conditions. Staff represented by the Communication Workers Union (CWU) are holding 19 days of action across October and November. The walkouts across the country have already caused disruption to postal services, including in Burnham-On-Sea, with the …
Read More »The truth about corporate taxes
I’ve chosen to write about corporate tax rates this week not because they’re the sexiest subject available but because – unlike the government’s frontbench, the value of the pound and the scale of winter fuel bills – they’re unlikely to change dramatically during the shelf-life of this column. An increase …
Read More »Royal Mail should pay employee £100,000 after it ‘destroyed’ her life, judge says
Royal Mail has been accused by a judge of ‘destroying’ a female employee’s life after she was the victim of a lengthy bullying campaign for blowing the whistle on potential fraud. In an extraordinary judgement, the postal service was told that if it had a ‘shred of decency’ it would …
Read More »Network Rail invites union leaders to talks in bid to avert strike action | Rail strikes
Network Rail has invited union leaders to “intensive” talks next week in a bid to avert a fresh wave of strikes in a long-running row over pay, jobs and conditions. The Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union said its members will strike on 3, 5 and 7 November, threatening more …
Read More »Factbox-Strikes, protests in Europe over cost of living and pay
European countries are facing more strikes and protests due to high energy prices and mounting costs of living. Here are details of some industrial actions and demonstrations. FRANCE * Strikes have affected work at 20 of France’s 56 nuclear reactors, an FNME-CGT power union representative said on Wednesday, delaying maintenance …
Read More »How to…deal with strikes – Management Today
… industrial relations impasse, argues David Liddle, the CEO of TCM Group, who previously ran the Royal Mail's industrial relations unit. Source link
Read More »‘For sale’ Scottish airline Loganair returns to profitability after pandemic
Scottish airline Loganair has announced it has returned to profitability following the pandemic. On Wednesday, the Glasgow-based company released its audited accounts for the financial year to March 31, 2022, setting out a profit before tax of £4.98m on a turnover of £161m. It is the first year since before …
Read More »Full list of 18 Royal Mail strike dates in the run-up to Christmas
Royal Mail staff are poised to walk out again as a dispute over pay continues. From Thursday (October 20), workers will walk out on 18 days from October to December, covering the busy pre-Christmas period which includes Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Over summer more than 100,000 postal workers took …
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