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CWU Says BT Job Losses Challenging

14th May 2009

CWU today (Thursday) says that the new announcement of job losses will be challenging for all at BT but that a voluntary approach to redundancies must be retained.

Andy Kerr, CWU deputy general secretary, said: "15,000 is a very challenging level of job losses, especially on the back of last year's reductions.

"We expect the majority of job losses to be third party - contractors and agency staff - as they were last year with many jobs being lost outside of the UK. However this is a serious day for staff at BT.

"There was a damaging mis-management of Global Services by senior managers, which has been the main cause of these poor results. These managers have been removed and we're hopeful that this difficult time is now behind the company.

"We're working closely with the company to ensure any losses are voluntary and we're looking at new ways of finding new work and retaining permanent employees, including secondment agreements."