The new chief executive of Hays, the personnel, haulage and private mail group, which is selling off all but its staff recruitment business, has shocked the City by announcing his departure after just 10 months in the job.
Colin Matthews, who joined Hays last November after stints with British Airways and the gas network Transco, said he planned to leave next year once the sale of the group’s haulage division had been completed.
Read MoreThe Communication Workers Union has welcomed the Trade and Industry select committee’s decision to look at the finances of Royal Mail.
CWU general secretary David Ward yesterday called on the all-party group to look at Royal Mail after accusing management of exaggerating the extent of the company’s problems.
Committee chairman Martin O’Neill told AFX News he would be summoning all parties to a hearing in early October when parliament returns after the political party conferences.
Read MoreUnion leaders have accused the Prime Minister of refusing to meet them to discuss controversial plans to switch mail deliveries from rail to road.
A delegation of MPs is due to meet Tony Blair next week to discuss the issue, but union leaders claimed they had been snubbed.
Bob Crow, general secretary of the Rail Maritime and Transport Union, said the door was always open to business leaders, but had been “slammed in the faces” of unions.
Read MorePost Office workers poised on the brink of strike action were urged by their new boss today not to “kill the company through greed”.
Royal Mail chief executive Adam Crozier told The Daily Telegraph that he feared there would be a strike which would not only be bad news for customers, but workers too.
Read MoreA new study into customer satisfaction with An Post has added to the misery at the State owned postal company.
A survey carried out for the latest ComReg Quarterly Report shows that businesses are increasingly unhappy with the level of service offered by An Post.
The Commission said the survey highlights “a number of worrying trends”.
The news comes just days after the company said it would have to cut 500 jobs and would report a loss of EUR50m this year after losing more than EUR70m in 2002. Just a few months ago, An Post was targeting a full year profit of EUR1m.
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