{"id":202672,"date":"2022-10-15T00:21:48","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T18:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=202672"},"modified":"2022-10-15T00:21:48","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T18:51:48","slug":"uks-royal-mail-seeks-10000-job-cuts-blames-industrial-action-for-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/10\/15\/uks-royal-mail-seeks-10000-job-cuts-blames-industrial-action-for-losses\/","title":{"rendered":"UK&#8217;s Royal Mail Seeks 10,000 Job Cuts, Blames Industrial Action For Losses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">London, Oct 14 (AFP): Britain&#8217;s Royal Mail postal operator is seeking to axe up to 10,000 jobs, its parent company said Friday, blaming industrial action for huge financial losses.<br \/>\n&#8220;Our operational full-time employee workforce will need to reduce by an estimated 10,000 by the end of August 2023,&#8221; parent group International Distribution Service said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The statement added that up to 6,000 compulsory redundancies may be required.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The firm said its position had &#8220;deteriorated due to a combination of the impact of the industrial dispute, an inability to deliver the joint productivity improvements&#8221; agreed with unions and &#8220;deteriorating parcel volumes&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thousands of postal workers, who deliver parcels and letters across the nation in distinctive red vans with a crown logo, went on strike in August after being given a pay raise that fell far short of inflation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London, Oct 14 (AFP): Britain&#8217;s Royal Mail postal operator is seeking to axe up to 10,000 jobs, its parent company said Friday, blaming industrial action for huge financial losses. &#8220;Our operational full-time employee workforce will need to reduce by an estimated 10,000 by the end of August 2023,&#8221; parent group International Distribution Service said in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-202672","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}