Around 6,500 postal workers are off sick every day at a cost of £200million a year, Royal Mail’s chief executive has revealed.
Martin Seidenberg, the boss of International Distribution Services (IDS), which owns Royal Mail, said the business wanted to be at the ‘vanguard’ of efforts to tackle the nation’s economic inactivity.
‘It has a cost to us, and of course an impact to you,’ Mr Seidenberg said at a panel in London.
In response to staff absences, IDS has given its 130,000 employees 24-hour access to an online GP.
‘We believe that the sooner our people have access to medical support, the sooner
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