{"id":16210,"date":"2018-09-12T16:12:31","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T15:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=16210"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:58:14","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:58:14","slug":"xpo-logistics-pay-failures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=16210","title":{"rendered":"\u00e2\u20ac\u0098Pay lottery\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 misery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Unite is calling on XPO Logistics to get its house in order after workers have suffered over two months of \u00e2\u20ac\u0098pay lottery\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 misery, which has resulted in workers on occasion not being paid at all.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Problems began when XPO changed its payroll provider. Initially the company described the pay failures as isolated \u00e2\u20ac\u0098teething problems\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. However Unite now understands the problem is affecting much of XPO\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s UK workforce.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The company operates warehouses and logistics for many high profile clients including Marks and Spencer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, B&amp;Q and Iceland.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Workers have experienced both under and overpayment, with some workers not being paid at all. The problems also do not seem to be consistent and workers have been left totally confused about how and when they will be paid correctly.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The constant uncertainty about payment is also affecting morale and productivity at some XPO Logistics sites. Problems have been exacerbated in the high-handed and unsympathetic manner that XPO has sought to take money from workers it had overpaid.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIt is clear that XPO Logistics has got to get its house in order,&#8221; said Unite national officer for logistics and warehouse workers Matt Draper. &#8220;XPO has tried to downplay these severe pay problems as teething problems but this is a far greater problem, which has been ongoing for months.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite members are fed up playing a perverse lottery every single week where they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know what they will be paid until they receive their pay packet and then have to battle to have their pay paid correctly,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bXPO has then poured oil on already troubled waters by the heavy handed manner in which it has sought to claw back money from workers who it has overpaid.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe company needs to come round the table with Unite, explain how it will resolve these problems and also how it will restore morale and confidence that has been demolished by its own incompetence.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unite is calling on XPO Logistics to get its house in order after workers have suffered over two months of \u00e2\u20ac\u0098pay lottery\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 misery, which has resulted in workers on occasion not being paid at all. &nbsp; Problems began when XPO changed its payroll provider. Initially the company described the pay failures as isolated \u00e2\u20ac\u0098teething problems\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[785,135],"wps_subtitle":"XPO logistics must get its \u00e2\u20ac\u0098house in order\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 over pay failures","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16210"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25884,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16210\/revisions\/25884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}