08/07/2007 by admin.

Kwik Save has announced it is to go into administration leaving workers at its Wrexham branch fearing for their futures.

The town’s Kwik Save store in Hightown faces the threat of closure despite staff at the store working without pay in recent weeks, in the hope that efforts to save the ailing store would be successful. The future looks bleak with an announcement imminent on whether the town store will stay open.

In May, 79 stores were shut down, and 90 more are set to go after this announcement, with 56 others transferring to a new company.

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08/07/2007 by admin.

Postal workers are set to stage a fresh 24-hour strike in a bitter row over pay and jobs. Mail deliveries are set to be crippled for a second time in a fortnight.

The Communication Workers Union said up to 130,000 of its members will walk out from 7pm next Thursday following an earlier stoppage last month.

The union also wrote to Royal Mail chairman Allan Leighton outlining a deal it believed could break the deadlocked row.

The union has rejected a 2.5% pay offer and warned that the Royal Mail’s modernisation plans will lead to the loss of 40,000 jobs.

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08/07/2007 by admin.

Wrexham-based reception service provider Moneypenny reveals in a new survey that the hardest thing for Britain’s businessmen to do while on holiday is switch off.

The poll shows 93% of UK managers admitted to checking emails while away on a break, with almost half reading them daily, and an obsessive one in ten monitoring them every hour while on the beach or by the pool.

Three quarters of managers said they routinely take business calls during their holidays, and a tenth have cancelled a short break or holiday because of work.

Almost four in ten owner-managers had interrupted their break to attend meetings when they should have been relaxing.

Rachel Clacher, Moneypenny director, said: “It is clear from these results that work issues follow the vast majority of small business owners and managers away when they try to take time off. With this sector forming the bedrock of of the UK economy, the more that can be done to counter the stress this causes the better.”

Set up in 2000 by brother and sister team Ed Reeves and Ms Clacher, Moneypenny runs the UK’s only comprehensive outsourced reception and call handling service. The team manages calls for 30,000 people, picking up 3.5 million calls a year.

The services are used to either support existing teams during busy periods or to manage the entire reception function.

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