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Professional Services Professional Legal And Technical Acconuting Activities Legal And Accounting Activities 69 - Legal and accounting activities
New offshoring locations
India, Malaysia
380 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
16 November 2016
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
28 February 2018
Description
Oil company Shell has announced that it is to cut 380 jobs closing its finance operations in central Glasgow. The process, which is still subject to statutory consultation with employee representatives, is scheduled to take approximately fifteen months in total. It is understood that the work will be moved to other sites in the company's portfolio, such as sites in India and Malaysia, though there is no definite information at this point about where the work will now be done. A spokesperson for the company said that the likelihood was that Glasgow employees would face compulsory redundancy. Shell has previously announced 10,000 job cuts worldwide in February 2016, of which 1,600 jobs were reported to be lost from the UK.
Sources
16 November 2016: BBC Website
16 November 2016: The Guardian
Citation
Eurofound (2016), Shell, Offshoring/Delocalisation in United Kingdom, factsheet number 89281, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/89281.
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