Resourcing, Recruitment and Professional Manpower Planning/Legally Binding Agreement

Resourcing, Recruitment and Professional Manpower Planning/Legally Binding Agreement
You will recall that in November 2015 the situation locally in respect of the business not adhering (in our opinion) to our National Agreements regarding the above had become so dire that it was necessary for a national intervention and the negotiation of a Joint Statement to guide and refocus the field (LTB 715/15 refers).
Unfortunately it is with great frustration that once again we are required to intervene due to management’s failure to apply our agreements at local level. This has now reached epidemic proportions with the consequences of managers performing OPG work, excessive use of agency and casuals, excessive levels of overtime, part timers being asked to regularly perform hours above their conditioned hours (despite not being offered increased contracts in line with our agreement), an apparent national block on any full time recruitment, the cessation of temporary contracts, regardless of need, and offers of un-agreed voluntary redundancies etc threatening industrial stability.
Against that backdrop the Postal Executive has for the first time taken the very serious step of registering a national Point of Principle, in line with Schedule 3 Disputes Resolution Procedures of the legally binding agreement, and in particular Section 3 Achieving National Agreement 3.1 Point of Principle.
This is new territory for us and it is with great regret that we’ve had to take this action but it is naive to believe that industrial stability will be maintained if agreements reached nationally are not applied in the workplace locally.
Clearly this Point of Principle is not about renegotiating our National Agreements but rather the business’ failure to deploy those National Agreements and enforce them at local level. Our on-going dialogue will be about how we jointly correct that situation and restore confidence in our procedures.
Notwithstanding the position being taken nationally, Local, Area and Divisional Representatives should continue to challenge any activity which is considered inconsistent with our National Agreements via the IR Framework.
Attached to this LTB is a letter sent to Mike Newby on this issue which is self-explanatory.
Branches should ensure that this LTB is given the widest possible circulation and that it is brought to the attention of local Representatives.
Any enquiries in relation to the content of this LTB should be addressed to the DGSP Department.
Yours sincerely,     

    
Terry Pullinger     

Deputy General Secretary (Postal) 
 
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LTB 132/16 Resourcing, Recruitment and Professional Manpower Planning/Legally Binding Agreement

Attachment 1 22.02.16 Letter to Mike Newby – Resourcing in Royal Mail