The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
Transportation / Storage Warehousing And Support Activities For Transportation, Postal And Courier Activities Postal And Courier Activities 53.1 - Postal activities under universal service obligation
30,000 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
8 August 2005
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
1 August 2010
Description
Details of the 30,000 job losses were revealed in a study by consultancy LECG for Postcomm. The analysis says that the Royal Mail is 'forecasting operational redundancy costs'. According to the report at least 30,000 job losses, from a 165,000-strong workforce, are planned. The reason given is that the Royal Mail will lose its 350-year-old monopoly from the start of 2006 when any licensed company will be able to deliver to business or domestic customers.
The estimated job losses came in a report for Postcomm carried out by consultancy LECG which predicted that the jobs will go over the next five years, 'largely through natural attrition, avoiding redundancies and the potential for industrial action'. The financial situation in the company is good with record profits of £537 million, up from £220 million for the previous 12 months. In the past years it has successfully turned itself around, already reducing its workforce from 218,000 in 2001 to today's 165,000.
Sources
8 August 2005: The Guardian
8 August 2005: BBC News
Citation
Eurofound (2005), Royal Mail, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 62072, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/62072.
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