THE POST Workplace may scrap two in three jobs in a cost-cutting drive.
Among the estimated £200million financial savings will probably be used to enhance sub-postmasters’ pay, it was reported final night time.
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A assessment — introduced within the wake of the Horizon IT scandal — may even see employees minimize from 3,100 to round 1,000.
Roles on the London HQ may go.
Sub-postmasters, who run many of the 11,500 Publish Workplace branches, won’t be affected.
Equally, posties – employed by Royal Mail – wouldn’t be affected.
However grants to rural Publish Places of work could possibly be minimize, elevating the chance of closures.
The Publish Workplace stated the priorities of its interim chairman are “remediation for post-masters affected by the IT scandal” and boosting their earnings.
Its suggestions had been at the moment below dialogue with the federal government.
Greater than 900 sub-postmasters had been wrongly prosecuted primarily based on defective knowledge.
