In my previous employer, a team of about 150 clerical and admin staff were transferred a year and a day ago to an outsourcing company. All their terms and conditions remained the same and they were assured that nothing would change. I guess their salary range was between £16k and £25k depending on experience.
Yesterday they were told that their jobs are being off-shored to India.
There will be no redundancy pay as the employees have only worked for the new company for 1 year.
The employers previous policy was generous at 1 to 2 months pay for every year worked and some of the staff there had been there for 30 years though the average was about 5.
Most of the staff were very good at what they did.
This is sharp practice at best especially as the previous employer is partly state owned!
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