BT accused of 'shameless’ move of jobs abroad

Communication workers’ union the CWU has accused BT of shamelessly exporting UK jobs at a time of rocketing unemployment.

The union stated that, in a move that exposes a “breathtaking” lack of corporate social responsibility, five team member grade employees in BT Global are “at risk” of compulsory redundancy as a result of their work being offshored to Hungary and India. This comes a month after a separate BT division announced the redundancy of its entire UK User Access Management Team because of a decision to move their work to Bangalore.

CWU national officer for BT Global, Allan Eldred said that “the company is moving towards the complete abandonment of redeployment as a way of mitigating the effects of change. This is not through necessity – it’s through choice.

“It’s also a direct breach of the redundancy agreement contained in Annexe 2 of the 2018 Pensions Agreement, which holds BT to onshore work to prevent redundancies. Global is doing the direct opposite – offshoring work to create redundancies!”

https://www.cwu.org/news/new-offshoring-outrage-as-bt-moves-to-sack-uk-workers-and-send-their-work-overseas