Pearl Group scales back jobs losses likely

Job losses likely as the Pearl Group scales back its operations in Glasgow and Peterborough. Up to 500 jobs could be lost as the Pearl Group contracts its offices at both sites.

The move is a result of a consolidation that over the next two years will see jobs transfer to Pearls site in the midlands. The midlands operation is based at Wythall, near Birmingham.

Unite the union described the companies decision as a "slap in the face to loyal and skilled workforce"

"Unite members are shocked and many are angry to hear that both sites are to close. Over the last two years the workforce in Glasgow have been bounced from one employer to another. Despite this upheaval, they have remained professional and continued to deliver for their various employers, only to be rewarded by losing their jobs."

Unite has called for the Pearl Group to give the union more detail around the business rationale for the decision and reiterated it’s opposition to any compulsory redundancies.

Graham Goddard, Unite deputy general secretary, said: "Unite members are shocked and many are angry to hear that both sites are to close.

3rd September 2008

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