Jobs to go as SEC’s catering staff laid off

Catering staff members who do the job at Glasgow’s Scottish Occasions Campus (SEC) are to be produced redundant.

Levy United kingdom, the venue’s caterers, verified on Friday that its relaxed personnel have been getting paid off.

The business enterprise refused to verify how several staff members are affected, but it is comprehended to be less than 500.

Levy stated that the ongoing pandemic made it unlikely that catered situations would just take spot at the SEC for the foreseeable future.

In April, the web page was transformed into a £38m temporary clinic, the NHS Louisa Jordan, but it has not been desired in the course of the outbreak.

Final thirty day period it was verified that men and women who have experienced healthcare postponed owing to the pandemic could be taken care of there.

The Scottish govt has also mentioned the venue could be made prepared to accept Covid sufferers with a handful of days’ recognize in the occasion of a 2nd spike of the virus.

A spokesman for the catering enterprise explained the sport and leisure sector experienced been “a person of the most deeply impacted sectors”.

He was talking immediately after the information about the position losses was noted in Glasgow’s Night Situations.

With no catered activities using area, or scheduled to do so for the foreseeable upcoming, at the SEC, it was “with deep regret” that the choice had been designed to get rid of relaxed workers from the furlough plan and make them redundant.

He extra: “This is not a conclusion we have taken flippantly, and we have worked challenging to retain and redeploy colleagues exactly where attainable

‘Alternative to mass redundancy available’

Unite’s Bryan Simpson said here had been a lot more than 600 workers on their publications at the location, and the “huge bulk” of the relaxed personnel were being terminated without session.

He added that an additional 85 of people who were both core staff members or on mounted time period contracts had been educated that they are at risk of redundancy.

Mr Simpson reported the way personnel experienced been taken care of was “absolutely nothing quick of disgraceful”.

“There is an substitute to mass redundancy out there until at least 31 Oct in the Career Retention Scheme.

“As a substitute Levy are seeking to terminate all core and everyday employees in the upcoming handful of months because from September they will be expected to lead a measly 10% to their wages.

“Everyday workers usually are not even heading to be consulted. They have just sent them a letter informing them that they will be taken out from the furlough scheme in two months,” he explained.

Levy explained that as a “responsible enterprise” it would not be correct to use taxpayer income to maintain persons on furlough if they did not anticipate the staff members staying necessary in the long term.

It also stated it had topped up furlough payments to relaxed personnel to 100% of their ordinary earnings for the to start with two weeks of the plan.