Tag: Belgian Post

Belgian Post Employees Demand 5.0 Pct Pay Rise

Posted by | Jan 29, 2007 | |

The negotiations for a new collective labour agreement for the employees of Belgian postal company De Post/La Poste will begin on January 31, 2007 with the trade unions demanding at least 5.0 pct pay increase, Belgian daily De Standaard reported on January 29, 2007.
The pay talks will be central to the negotiations for the collective agreement for 2007 and 2008. The 5.0 pct pay rise was agreed by the social partners in the autumn and the trade unions are reluctant to fall below that. According to Marc De Mulder from trade union VSOA, when inflation is taken into count, the real increase will be just 1.0 pct.
The unions will further demand amendments to the company’s retirement scheme. Under the current collective labour agreement, the early retirement age was increased to 58 from 57.
In 2007, De Post/La Poste plans to close 277 postal offices and to open post counters instead, cutting 2,000 jobs.
De Post/La Poste booked a net profit of 83 mln euro (USD107.2 mln) on revenue of 1.1 bln euro (USD1.42 bln) in the first half of 2006. The company has not released full-year results yet.

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Belgian Post to close 277 offices 2007

Posted by | Nov 23, 2006 | |

Belgian postal services company De Post/La Poste will close 277 offices in 2007 as part of its restructuring plan, Belgian daily De Standaard said on November 22, 2006.

De Post hopes to compensate the closure of offices in its loss-making postal network with the opening of 189 PostPunten sales counters at banks, supermarkets and news stand in 2007.

The company currently has 136 PostPunten counters. It plans to operate 1,300 offices and counters in 2007, but to reduce substantially the number of post offices to 650 from 1,249 by 2009.

De Post/La Poste will shut down the first 99 offices in February 2007, according to Lieve Van Overbeke, representative of the ACV trade union. The closures will affect 219 employees.

www.standaard.be

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Fortis to duplicate Belgian success with An Post joint venture

Posted by | Nov 1, 2006 | |

Having gained ten years of experience working with the state-owned Belgian post office, Fortis has finalised an agreement with the Irish post office An Post to create a similar financial services joint venture in Ireland.

The agreement with An Post is part of Fortis’s strategy to expand internationally, particularly in recognised European growth markets such as Ireland, Russia and Germany.

The two organisations are creating a new retail bank, which will be a 50/50 partnership between them, and will have an initial capital of 112 million (euro). Fortis will pay 56 million (euro) in cash and An Post will contribute the balance.

Under the agreement, An Post will provide Fortis with access to its network of 1,400 post office branches, while the latter will contribute its international experience in bancassurance.

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EU to take next step in postal reform, national monopolies must cease by 2009

Posted by | Oct 17, 2006 | |

The European Commission will announce the next step in its liberalisation of Europe’s postal services tomorrow, with deliveries of letters under 50 grams open to competition by 2009, said Oliver Drewes, spokesman for EU internal markets commissioner Charlie McCreevy.

The commission will debate the proposals at its weekly meeting tomorrow before announcing plans to free up the market for letters in Europe, following on from its 2002 directive on parcels and letters over 50 grams.

Currently, historical operators may still hold national monopolies on letters weighing less than 50 grams in Europe.

According to a report in Belgian daily La Libre Belgique, which says it has seen the proposals, the UK, the Netherlands, Scandinavian countries and Germany have been the most successful in terms of ending the monopoly of traditional postal services providers and introducing competition.

The Belgian and French post offices are widely expected to be announced as the worst offenders in liberalising markets.

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Belgian Post to open 120 service agencies this summer

Posted by | Jul 11, 2006 | |

Belgian Post plans to open 120 services agencies this summer as part of its cost-saving restructuring of its postal network. The agencies offer basic postal services.

The post office, which already had about 40 such agencies, has opened 40 new “Points Poste” in recent weeks and expects to increase this figure to 120 outlets by the end of the summer.

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