RBS Announces Direct Line Jobs Losses In Glasgow
The insurance giant Direct Line who is owned by RBS has announced the closure of its main Glasgow offices within the next three years. There are around 640 staff based at these offices and they were called into the meeting yesterday afternoon to find out the bad news.
RBS has announced that 200 of these employees will be offered the opportunity to move down to their other offices on Cadogan street.
The move is a bitter blow for Glasgow but it was not unexpected. It was back in May the firm announced that over 2000 jobs were going to be cut after a ruling from the European Commission that ordered the sale of this arm of the company.
There has however been a back lash from unions who maintain this is still a job cutting exercise and it is just part of the fall out caused by the company’s irresponsible behaviour.
The unions are now calling on RBS to sit down and come clean with their planned job cuts over the next few years. The unions have also pointed the finger at the government and claimed they could have done more to try and prevent these job losses.
However in reality the government is going to struggle with these issues over the next few years as companies start to make redundancies. The fact is economically, and socially, things are going to get very hard over the next few years and job losses are going come as a result.
