{"id":5922,"date":"2023-06-27T09:48:46","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T21:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=5922"},"modified":"2023-06-27T09:48:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T21:48:46","slug":"nz-post-announces-mass-staff-lay-offs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=5922","title":{"rendered":"NZ Post announces mass staff lay-offs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sics-component__html-injector sics-component__story__intro sics-component__story__paragraph\">NZ Post has told its workforce it plans to layoff off at least 750 staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sics-component__html-injector sics-component__story__paragraph\">The national mail carrier will soon begin consultation on reducing the number of its mail roles, which it says comes in response to its postal services no longer being used like they once were.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sics-component__html-injector sics-component__story__paragraph\">The 750 full-time equivalent roles would be phased out over the next five years, it confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sics-component__html-injector sics-component__story__paragraph\">A spokesperson for NZ Post stressed that the \u201cpeople changes\u201d were \u201cgoing to be a slow adjustment\u201d.<\/p>\n<div id=\"piano-article-readmore\" class=\"sics-component__basic-div-container--piano-container\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"sics-component__html-injector sics-component__story__paragraph\"><em>Stuff<\/em>\u00a0understands that staff were told about the mass redundancies early this morning, with meetings held at each of its branches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sics-component__html-injector sics-component__story__paragraph\">The planned redundancies will cut about one fifth of its workforce and impact posties, processing and support staff and leadership roles. It currently employs 4500 staff.<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE STUFF NEWS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Post has told its workforce it plans to layoff off at least 750 staff. The national mail carrier will soon begin consultation on reducing the number of its mail roles, which it says comes in response to its postal services no longer being used like they once were. The 750 full-time equivalent roles would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5924,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5922\/revisions\/5924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}