Capita job losses at Belfast site
1st March 2010
Unite the union members employed by Capita have been informed
today (Monday 1st March) that 84 of 154 staff at their Belfast site
face redundancy.
These job losses come less than a week after the company
announced record profits, and just two weeks after announcing that
it was placing 65 people at risk on its Northern Ireland civil
service contract based in Belfast city centre.
Daryl Williams, Unite officer, said: “Unite is angry that
despite a commitment in October 2006 from Capita chief executive,
Paul Pindar, to grow the Clarendon Dock site in Belfast, Capita has
failed to deliver. A once vibrant finance life and pensions service
centre will have gone from 450 staff to now less than 75.
“There is no reason why Capita should not invest in Belfast, the
company has readily available experienced and skilled staff, space
and infrastructure at the site. The union is calling on Capita to
show its commitment to Northern Ireland by reversing the planned
redundancies and to deliver on its promise to grow its Belfast
operation.”
Capita generates most of its profit in Northern Ireland from
taxpayers and licence fee payers due to contracts with NICS and
BBC. Yet while the company increases dividends on an annual basis
to shareholders, it is continuing to decimate the local job market
with mass redundancies.
Unite is also calling on Northern Ireland’s politicians, as a
major client of Capita, to engage with the company to do whatever
they can to reverse the job loss announcement today.
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For more information contact: Saba Mozakka, Unite press office
on: 07768 693 953.
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