{"id":173486,"date":"2024-11-12T18:46:40","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T18:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/12\/post-office-jobs-and-branches-at-risk-in-shake-up\/"},"modified":"2024-11-12T18:46:40","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T18:46:40","slug":"post-office-jobs-and-branches-at-risk-in-shake-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/12\/post-office-jobs-and-branches-at-risk-in-shake-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Post Office jobs and branches at risk in shake-up"},"content":{"rendered":"
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More than 100 Post Office branches and hundreds of head office jobs are at risk as part of a radical shake-up of the business, the BBC understands.<\/p>\n

Under the plan, 115 loss-making branches wholly owned by the Post Office could be closed.<\/p>\n

The Post Office is looking at options including alternative franchise arrangements where another operator or third party could take on the branches instead.<\/p>\n

These sites employ around 1,000 workers. In addition to this, hundreds of jobs are under threat at the group’s headquarters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Post Office’s new chairman Nigel Railton will brief staff on Wednesday on the outcome of a review launched earlier this year.<\/p>\n

The former boss of Camelot was appointed interim chairman of the Post Office after his predecessor Henry Staunton was sacked in January.<\/p>\n

The aim of the review is to put the Post Office on a firmer financial footing.<\/p>\n

The troubled organisation is currently the subject of a long-running inquiry into the Horizon IT scandal, in which hundreds of sub-postmasters were wrongly prosecuted after faulty software made it appear money was missing from their accounts.<\/p>\n

Railton has already told the Post Office inquiry that a new deal was needed for sub-postmasters, to put them at the centre of the business.<\/p>\n

The strategic review is designed to fundamentally change how the Post Office operates.<\/p>\n

The business has 11,500 Post Offices across the UK, most of which are franchises.<\/p>\n

Of this number, 115 are Crown Post Offices in city centres staffed by Post Office employees.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month Post Office minister Gareth Thomas said the organisation was at a critical juncture and the government had already commissioned its own review into what the Post Office should look like in the future.<\/p>\n

Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds told the inquiry on Monday that he didn’t feel sub-postmasters were getting appropriate pay for the amount of business they conduct.<\/p>\n

He hinted that Post Office branches could step into filling the gap left by High Street bank branch closures.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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