Hundreds of TV Licensing jobs are at risk of redundancy under plans by outsourcer Capita to relocate – and partly offshore – work from Bristol.
Capita is proposing to move 350 jobs from its office in the city to alternative sites in Lancashire and India.
The Communication Workers Union branded the move as "callous,” adding that it feared compulsory redundancies would hit Bristol "particularly heavily". A series of strikes over an ongoing pay dispute were held at Capita’s TV Licensing facilities last year.
The news comes only four weeks after the supplier won a high-profile £560 million, 10-year renewal of its relationship with TV Licensing. That original deal, inked in 2002, was ironically enough founded on the setting up of the new Bristol HQ in the first place – a mark of extensive investment by the company into making the new relationship a success.
