By the end of the year, La Banque Postale will end the benefits in kind of 152,000 retired former postal workers. Among these advantages: a free bank card, reduced overdraft fees and a current account remunerated at the Livret A rate.
It is a decision that does not pass. La Banque Postale has decided to end the benefits in kind of 152,000 retired former postal workers, reports West France.
Among them, there is the free bank card, reduced overdraft fees, the remuneration of the sums deposited in the current account at the rate of the livret A within the limit of 10,000 euros… But also the free telephone subscription or the payment of an equivalent premium.
It’s an old social asset
It is an old social asset: the agents of the Post office benefit from advantages in kind dating for some from the time of the PTT, before the creation of France Telecom, become Orange, of La Poste and the Postal Bank, indicates the daily newspaper.
If, for current employees, these benefits subject to Urssaf contributions are salary elements that cannot be called into question without terminating the employment contract, the situation is different for withdrawals from La Poste.
As a result, 152,000 former postal workers with a La Banque Postale account to which their pension is transferred are currently receiving letters telling them that these various benefits will end on 31 December.
A shameful gesture
A decision that made this former postman jump, who calculated the amount of these benefits at 150 euros per year, supplementing a pension of 1200 euros. For him, this is a shameful gesture and a snub towards those who served La Poste from Monday to Saturday in all weathers, reports West France.
In a letter addressed to the screwed withdrawals, La Poste indicates that it can no longer assume the financial burden of these benefits, which has become too heavy, at a time when the turnover linked to the mail business is in free fall.
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