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Transportation / Storage Warehousing And Support Activities For Transportation, Postal And Courier Activities Postal And Courier Activities 53.10 - Postal Activities Under Universal Service Obligation
37 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
6 May 2024
Employment effect (start)
6 May 2024
Foreseen end date
Description
Posti, the state owned postal company under the universal postal obligation in Finland, is making two changes to their business and will reduce its staff by 130 workers.
The first is that they will stop delivering mass delivery of advertisements and unaddressed mass mailings, such as free newspapers without a named recipient. This change is starting in the beginning of 2025.
The second change is a reorganisation of their postal center in Tampere. This change is due to investments in new sorting machines that will improve the efficiency in mail handling, and due to centralisation of mail handling to the city of Helsinki.
Change negotiations have started 6th of May 2024, and the estimated staff reduction is a maximum of 130 workers, primarily concentrated to the postal office in Tampere.
Updated 26/8/24
Posti has concluded the cooperation negotiations and the number of redundancies have decreased significantly from original estimates. At the start of the negotiations, the total number of reductions in the Tampere postal center was estimated at a maximum of 120. During the negotiations, the estimated need for redundancies was reduced to a maximum of 34 people. For unaddressed deliveries, the overall reduction was estimated at a maximum of 130 at the start of the negotiations. During the negotiations, the estimated need for redundancies was reduced to a maximum of 3 people.
To recap: following negotiations, the total number of job cuts is now expected to be 37.
Eurofound (2024), Posti, Internal restructuring in Finland, factsheet number 201155, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/201155.
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