The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
The mobile phone company 3 is to lose around a quarter of its call centre staff in Glasgow.
About 120 jobs will go over the next three months but the company said it hopes to redeploy some of them in its retail outlets. A company spokesman said the plans would mean that some of the contact centre functions would be relocated elsewhere. The move will affect staff working in the St Vincent Street centre.
A spokesman said: 'As our business matures, we have realised we need to create more opportunities for face-to-face contact with our customers.'
'Over the next year we plan to dramatically increase the number of 3 stores which will enable customers to engage directly with our business.'
'A consultation process is already in place, and we have a firm commitment to re-deployment.'
'Where it is not possible to find re-deployment opportunities within 3, we will be working in partnership with Scottish Enterprise and other relevant partners to help find roles for employees wherever we can.'
Sources
27 November 2006: The Guardian
23 January 2007: BBC News
Citation
Eurofound (2006), 3, Relocation in United Kingdom, factsheet number 64535, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/64535.
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