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Polish Post Office to be modernised in five years
The Polish postal service is to be turned from state-owned enterprise into a sole shareholder company of the State Treasury, which would allow for further privatisation in the future.
“We have to change the Polish Post Office into a dynamic enterprise”, promises Maciej Jankowski, deputy minister of infrastructure, quoted on TVN24.
Jankowski has declared his intention talk to the Post Office management and trade unions to get full understanding of the company, currently the key Polish employer with nearly 100,000 employees. The state enterprise awaits privatisation and commercialization according to the minister.
Jankowski promises he will do his best to have the new commercialization act passed through the Parliament and implemented in mid 2008.
Under the new law, the Polish Post Office would be transformed from a state-owned enterprise into a sole shareholder company of the State Treasury, which would allow for further privatisation of the entity.
The government’s preliminary plan assumes that part of the shares in Post Office will be floated on the stock exchange, but the state would retain its majority package in order to maintain control of the enterprise.
Deputy infrastructure minister informs, however, that the floatation should not be expected before 2010”.
Read MoreMalaysian express firm targets strong growth under new management
Malaysian parcels company GD Express (GDEX), one of the largest independent players in the country’s expanding express market, is targeting strong growth in 2008 under a new CEO.
With effect from January 1, Teong Teck Lean resigned as chief executive officer, paving the way for his former deputy chief executive Leong Chee Tong to assume the position. This was part of the company’s succession plan, GDEX said in a statement. Teong will remain deputy chairman and oversee group strategy.
GDEX will expand parcel handling capacity at its head office substantially later this year with the implementation of a new integrated hub management system (IHMS) that will take daily capacity to 60,000 items from 25,000 at present, the locally-based newspaper The Edge reported. The company will also add 30 more vehicles.
Leong was cited as saying that GDEX aims to broaden its services into logistics as companies started to outsource more operations.
Outgoing CEO Teong noted that competition was intensifying due to price competition, rising costs and higher customer expectations. GDEX did not exclude acquisitions in order to grow its business as the industry consolidated, he added.
Read MorePIN Group to pay statutory postal minimum wage to employees – report
PIN Group, the troubled German mail delivery company that has put itself up for sale, is to pay the statutory postal minimum wage to its employees, Focus Online reported, citing no sources.
The decision was made by the company’s new management led by Horst Piepenburg and will be announced within the next few days, it added.
Accordingly, the wages will be increased this month.
At the moment, the company pays its employees an average wage of 7.50 eur per hour.
However, since Jan 1, the statutory minimum wage is 8-9.80 eur.
Read MoreNow victims of crime have details lost in post in latest Government data bungle
Sensitive details about victims of crime may have fallen into the wrong hands in yet another lost data bungle by Government officials.
Four computer discs containing confidential details of magistrates court cases are missing after being posted through the Royal Mail.
The missing material includes details of at least 55 defendants and other “restricted” data not released in open court, potentially including the names and addresses of alleged victims and witnesses.
The Ministry of Justice confirmed last night that an urgent inquiry is under way following the latest in a string of blunders, which have seen the personal details of millions lost by the Government.
Last night critics called for a ban on personal data being posted, and called for a new criminal offence of “recklessly mishandling” such material.
In November officials at HM Revenue and Customs lost the entire child benefit database, and earlier this week the Ministry of Defence admitted that a laptop stolen from a Naval officer contained details of 600,000 military staff and potential recruits – leading to a ban on civil servants taking laptops out of offices.
The latest department to come under fire is Jack Straw’s Ministry of Justice.
The courtroom data discs were posted by recorded delivery on December 15 but never arrived, according to insiders.
To compound the humiliation, the discs were being sent as part of an urgent investigation Mr Straw had ordered into a separate fiasco.
The inquiry is into claims that hundreds of magistrates court cases have been quietly dropped when defendants failed to turn up, meaning that many suspects, including sex offenders, may have escaped justice.
As part of efforts to investigate the scandal, court officials put data on the four computer discs which are now missing.
Ministry of Justice officials refused to comment on exactly what “restricted” data had been lost.
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