Last post for agency workers
13 September 2012
Royal Mail temps and agency nurses are in the firing line again
Two sectors bore the brunt of the latest attacks on agency workers this month, re-opening the debate over firms’ use of tempoary labour. First, there was the Channel 4 Dispatches programme that revealed theft, fraud and incompetence in the Royal Mail. This was followed by a probe by consumer watchdog Postwatch that estimated that 14m items of mail go missing each year...