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Industry shows commitment to enablin women to succeed

Posted by | Jan 30, 2007 | |

Minister for Women, Ruth Kelly, launched a new drive today to step up efforts to reduce the gender pay gap and promote better work-life balance throughout the workplace.

She announced that more than 100 companies and organisations have signed up to a Exemplar Employer scheme since its launch in September. The Exemplar Employer scheme requires organisations to give a clear commitment to reducing the gender pay gap through projects ranging from encouraging women to find out and enter into jobs traditionally done mostly by men, to supporting mothers to return to work, to creating better quality opportunities for staff working part-time.

The first wave of organisations signed up range from high street names such as Asda to city companies such as Goldman Sachs to Parcelforce to construction firms.

Ruth Kelly also launched and opened bids for a new Quality Part-Time Work Fund, available to employers to finance trouble shooters who will advise on how to create and retain more part time jobs for women at a senior level.

Both the Exemplar Employer and Quality Part Time Work schemes have been created by the Government in response to the Women and Work Commission report, which looked at the causes of the gender pay gap. Creating a more flexible working world was one of the key recommendations made by the Commission as a way to way to increase the number of women – and the quality of roles available part-time and flexibly – in the workplace.

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Wincor Nixdorf reports Deutsche Post deal

Posted by | Jan 30, 2007 | |

Wincor Nixdorf will act as general contractor in equipping up to 20,000 counter positions at the branches of Deutsche Post and Postbank with new IT systems.

The solution package also includes a five-year maintenance agreement. The first branches will be equipped in the third quarter of 2007 and the overall project will be completed by 2008.

As part of the project, at least 125 front-end systems a day will be replaced and loaded before installation with Deutsche Post’s branch software. This is a demanding task: Deutsche Post is the postal services provider with the largest sales revenue in Europe, and its services are delivered to two to three million customers a day in Germany. Ongoing operations thus should be disrupted as little as possible by this refreshment of the IT landscape.

The all-around package of integrated individual components that Wincor Nixdorf offered played a crucial role in Deutsche Post’s decision. One particular factor was the total cost of ownership, i.e. the costs over the entire product lifecycle. Fujitsu Siemens Computers is the partner for supplying the personal computers and the configuration is rounded out by peripherals such as printers, monitors, scanners, etc.

As a result of this framework agreement, Wincor Nixdorf is taking on the general contractorship for a Deutsche Post project for the first time.

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German ministers want to extend Deutsche Post's mail delivery monopoly

Posted by | Jan 30, 2007 | |

Germany’s social welfare minister Franz Muentefering and finance minister Peer Steinbrueck want to extend Deutsche Post AG’s mail delivery monopoly beyond the current Dec 31 2007 deadline, Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported, citing unnamed sources.

In a pre-release of an article to appear in tomorrow’s edition, the newspaper wrote that Muentefering is concerned about Deutsche Post’s ability to compete against low-cost competitors that also pay lower wages to their staff.

A spokesman for the minister neither confirmed nor denied the report when contacted by the newspaper.

Sources within the Finance Ministry told the newspaper that Steinbrueck is concerned about Deutsche Post losing its monopoly while rivals in countries such as France and Italy are able to retain theirs.

The newspaper also said debate on the matter within the German government is expected to intensify within the coming weeks.

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Correos rewards the entrepreneurial spirit among its workers.

Posted by | Jan 30, 2007 | |

The chairman of CORREOS, José Damián Santiago, and directors of the postal service presented the “Excellent Office”, “Hermes” and “Postal Innovation” prizes in a ceremony held during the “Recognition of the Entrepreneurial Spirit in CORREOS Day”, which was took place yesterday at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid.

During the same event, the network of over 2,000 post offices received the “EFQM Seal of Excellence” at “European Quality” level. CORREOS’ post office branch network is the first network belonging to a public postal operator to receive such prestigious recognition for the quality of the service it provides.

CORREOS also awards the “Hermes” prize for excellence in the management of Distribution Units (sorting offices for ordinary mail – UR, or special or urgent services – USE).

The prizes for the 1st Postal Innovation Competition, which was held in 2006, were also awarded. The aim of the competition is to promote the development of innovative initiatives by employees and to involve them in the process of modernisation and massive incorporation of the information and knowledge technologies into the services and products provided by the post office.

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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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