UK Parcelforce jobs axed in cost-cutting move
Parcelforce is axing part of its Teesside workforce in a cost-cutting drive, the company’s parent group Royal Mail has confirmed.
The Royal Mail is to make 13 redundancies from its 75-strong workforce at the Parcelforce Worldwide depot at Riverside Park, Middlesbrough.
The company says the redundancies will be voluntary and the cuts at its loss-making parcel division are part of company cost cuts.
A Royal Mail spokesman said: “We are currently reorganising our Parcelforce network on a nationwide basis.
“Customers will not be affected but, as part of the changes proposed for the Cleveland depot, we are seeking some 13 redundancies among the 75-strong workforce and are involved with talks with the union.”
A Communication Workers Union spokesman confirmed the organisation had been in talks with the company over the redundancies.
Earlier this year, the Royal Mail announced it had returned to an operating profit as a result of a pounds 1.2bn three-year rescue plan that began in 2002.
The cost-cutting proposals included axing 6,700 Parcelforce staff nationally and concentrating only on next-day and two-day express deliveries.
However Parcelforce Worldwide has continued to lose money, posting operating losses for the year to March 2004 of pounds 102m.
Included in the initial round of 2002 job cuts were 40 redundancies from the Middlesbrough depot.
