www.WirelessFederation.com/news: BT, the Britain based telco, plans to issue 15,000 pink slips in 2009, a reduction of 10% from the total staff. According to the telco, the job cut will be through voluntary redundancy, most of which will occur in its Global Services division that deals with the IT and networking for large businesses. The division is at present being restructured.
“Our aim is to work closely with the unions to reduce BT’s total labour cost, of both direct and indirect staff, as this is critical to the success of the company going forward,” said BT.
Andy Kerr, Deputy General Secretary of the Communication Workers Union, added: “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.”