PostNL offers delivery drivers fixed contract – Financieele Dagblad (Registration)

PostNL doing its package deliverers an offer to come in permanent employment. For those who want to stay entrepreneur, increase retroactive to July 1, 2015 rates. This made trade union FNV and PostNL Monday.

The offer is in line with the outcome of negotiations last week reached by the two parties . It was agreed that all the independent delivery drivers who want to be employed by PostNL a permanent contract without probation is offered. They will go under the collective agreement of TNT.

Pressure

Voor self-employed who want to continue as an entrepreneur are raised rates. According to FNV, thereby increasing revenues by approximately 10%. Agreements have also been made on reducing the workload. In addition, self-employed choose to be employed by existing subcontractors PostNL. The postal company has promised to look for opportunities to take the bus or lease package deliverers who abandon the enterprise.

Reinier Stroo, FNV negotiator Transportation and Logistics

Result

The offer is made by PostNL, even though the outcome of negotiations rejected by some package deliverers. According to FNV adopted the outcome of negotiations at the meetings in Zwolle and Eindhoven, but voted down in Amsterdam. Therefore, there is no agreement. Critics say the deal does not address the problem of false self-employment.

“The outcome of the negotiations, according to our means an improvement for many delivery drivers “says Reinier Stroo, negotiator on behalf of FNV Transport and Logistics. “It is good that every package delivery who now works PostNL can decide for themselves whether or not to make use of the offer.”

Scale

Those who sign up this year still will get a written offer to scale 3, also PostNL Parcels has been because of adjustments to the process, the function recently valued at scale 2. Self-employed persons who register after January 1 next year or graded on the lower level. After 31 March next year lose the ability to enter the service automatically.

FNV and PostNL bickering for some time about the working conditions of package deliverers. An earlier offer from the company was labeled as inadequate by FNV, giving the deadlocked negotiations at the beginning of this month. One of the points of contention was the selection procedure would apply PostNL.