Scotland call-centre workers fear job outsourcing to India

[OhioChick]

LONDON: A leading business services firm in Scotland has announced that it is relocating more than 300 of its jobs to India.

Capita said that it had already circulated a formal notice among its staff, intimating that their jobs were at risk of redundancy.

The company, however, expressed confidence that many of the workers would be redeployed, and that their staff could apply for new jobs in the company.

However, that would mean a transfer to Glosgow from England.

It said that its site in Wythall, Birmingham, was being closed, and, as a result, about 375 positions were expected to be moved to Glasgow, where a call centre and centre of excellence would be set up.

Consequently, said a spokeswoman for Capita, the current 302 administrative positions in Glasgow would have to be relocated to Mumbai in India.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News_by_Industry/Scot_BPO_workers_lose_job_to_India/articleshow/3082663.cms

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