Unite: Capita job losses at Belfast site

Monday, 1 March 2010 12:00 AM

Unite the union members employed by Capita have been informed today (Monday 1st Match) 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, they have readily available the experienced and skilled staff, space and infrastructure at the site. The union is calling on Capita to show their commitment to Northern Ireland by reversing the planned redundancies and deliver on their promise to grow their Belfast operation."

Capita generates most of it's profit in Northern Ireland from taxpayers and licence fee payers due to their contracts with NICS and BBC. Yet while they increase dividends on an annual basis to shareholders, they are continuing to decimate the local job market with mass redundancies.

Unite is also calling 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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