13/05/2008 -
Australia Post's Future Delivery Design Recruitment
Strategy: Video Games, Toys and Showbags Australia
Post has been forced to take drastic steps in an attempt to recruit new Posties
in the light of implementation of their Future Delivery Design.
At this year’s Sydney Careers Expo, targeted at school students in years 10 and
12 about to enter the workforce or begin their higher educations, Australia
Post’s expo stall was somewhat disturbing, but unsurprising.
Australia Post certainly completed their research on how to attract school-aged
kids with a ride-on motorbike video arcade game, coupled with show-bags and
Post-branded “hacky sacks” as the centrepiece of attraction to their stall.
But, despite their tactics to attract these kids to their stall, judging from
enquiries with a number of young prospective career-seekers, the CEPU believes
they certainly did not succeed in attracting any kind of interest to their
low-skilled, low-paid, part-time Future Delivery Design job structure.
Especially when the CEPU with handed out flyers to prospective job-seekers at
the Expo explaining how Post’s famous 6:30 starter policy blatantly removes up
to $105 per week for no other reason than starting work 30 minutes later than
their colleagues.
“Under the Howard Government’s WorkChoices IR laws, it was proved on so many
levels that our younger generation of workers were most vulnerable to being
exploited in the workplace simply because of ignorance.
“I think it’s important that younger people considering a career with Post
should be aware of tactics used by Post to lower the wages and erode the
conditions of our Posties.” said a local Authorised Union Representative (AUR), when explaining why he had
taken time out of his day to assist in exposing Post's penalty rate sham to
potential young workers.
Australia
Post’s Future Delivery Design is nothing more than an extreme cost cutting
agenda which employs blatant job splitting, job de-skilling and a strong focus
on part time and casual employment.
Post’s dedicated delivery job structure and the infamous 6:30 start policy has
certainly taken it’s toll on their attempts to fill the massive amounts of
vacancies across the State with staff shortages in certain beginning to spiral
out of control.
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the CEPU on (02) 9893 7822
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CEPU NSW Postal & Telecommunications Branch 2008
Australia
Post has been forced to take drastic steps in an attempt to recruit new Posties
in the light of implementation of their Future Delivery Design.
Australia
Post’s Future Delivery Design is nothing more than an extreme cost cutting
agenda which employs blatant job splitting, job de-skilling and a strong focus
on part time and casual employment.