PostNL immediately offers all current and new postal deliverers a permanent contract. The postal and parcel company says it is doing this in an attempt to attract people in the current tight labor market.
The offer applies both to deliverers who are already employed and to new colleagues who are starting to work as postal deliverers.
This means that more than a thousand mail deliverers with a temporary appointment now receive a permanent contract.
Until now, postal deliverers were offered a permanent contract after seven months. PostNL says it gives employees more security in this way. “With the prospect of a permanent contract, we also hope to be able to enthuse new mail deliverers to come and work with us,” said the director of the mail branch, Bob van Ireland.
In June, PostNL agreed with the unions of the nearly 16,500 postmen to receive more than 8 percent wages. “New postal deliverers also receive a maximum of 250 euros in bonus in certain areas when they start working at PostNL.”
PostNL also focuses explicitly on schoolchildren and students when it comes to recruiting new people. “The wages of new young deliverers have been increased and the work has been made more flexible. For example, deliverers in several cities who want to deliver mail in the evenings.”