Minister to look at Wolverhampton mail staff pay error

The minister for postal services has been asked to intervene after dozens of temporary Royal Mail staff working in Wolverhampton went more than two weeks without pay.

Staff recruited to handle thousands of extra Christmas parcels and cards at the Royal Mail centre for the Black Country and Staffordshire have not been paid since starting on November 29.

They are meant to be paid weekly but an apparent blunder by Angard, an in-house company set up by Royal Mail to handle temporary recruitment, has left them short. Bosses said the majority of workers had been paid, but it is believed around 30 are still waiting.

The problem is not just confined to the North West Midlands Mail Centre in Sun Street, Wolverhampton.

Gavin Williamson, Conservative MP for South Staffordshire, has now called on postal affairs minister Ed Davey to look urgently into the problem.

He said: "We need to see people getting paid correctly and on time."