Thousands of postal delivery workers to lose their jobs

All TNT postal delivery workers who work more than 25 hours a week are to lose their jobs, the Telegraaf reports on Saturday.


Delivery staff who work more than 15 hours may also be out of work, depending on the fine-tuning of the reorganisation, the paper says.
It is not known how many workers will be affected by the mass redundancy programme.
At the beginning of this year, TNT employed some 15,000 full time delivery workers, the paper says.
Unions
‘The exact total will be determined in discussions with the works council,’ a spokesman told the paper.
The reorganisation of TNT’s postal delivery arm, prompted by the rise of email and competition from budget firms who pay delivery staff as freelancers, will take until 2013 to complete.
Earlier this year, TNT and the postal unions finally reached agreement on a new pay deal which would led to mass job losses. Union members rejected a deal which would have given job guarantees in return for pay cuts.
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