{"id":11225,"date":"2017-01-25T10:27:27","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T10:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=11225"},"modified":"2017-01-25T10:27:27","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T10:27:27","slug":"dark-day-workforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=11225","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Dark day&#8217; for workforce"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Unite\u00c2\u00a0 said yesterday (January 24) was a &#8216;dark day\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 for the workforce of HSBC after the bank announced its decision to close 117 bank branches and cut a further 204 IT staff.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>380 job losses leaves hundreds of HSBC staff fearful for their futures. The bank has told its UK workforce that 117 branches will close leaving 176 employees\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 jobs at risk and 204 IT jobs will be cut with the majority of jobs being offshored to teams in India, China and Poland.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bToday is a dark day for hundreds of HSBC staff who will arrive at work to be\u00c2\u00a0 told\u00c2\u00a0 that they could lose their job as their branch closes or their IT role is cut,&#8221; Unite national officer Dominic Hook said yesterday when the job losses were first announced.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite is deeply concerned that this large branch closure programme will be devastating not only for staff but also for the loyal HSBC customers who will lose their community branch.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis announcement comes just days after the disappointing news that Yorkshire and Clydesdale Bank will be shutting 79 branches with 400 job losses,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite is again calling on the banking industry to rethink such branch culling exercises, which do nothing to reassure customers or staff that banking is accessible and open to all.\u00c2\u00a0 Without doubt customer service in financial services will suffer if our high streets are left with no local branches. The banking industry must act to prevent confidence in our banking system falling further.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The IT job losses announced yesterday are a result of the majority of the roles from the UK being offshored to India, China and Poland.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite will be pressing HSBC to ensure that there are no compulsory job losses made as a result of the branch closure plans announced today.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unite\u00c2\u00a0 said yesterday (January 24) was a &#8216;dark day\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 for the workforce of HSBC after the bank announced its decision to close 117 bank branches and cut a further 204 IT staff. &nbsp; 380 job losses leaves hundreds of HSBC staff fearful for their futures. The bank has told its UK workforce that 117 branches [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4456,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[291,292,322,126],"wps_subtitle":"HSBC staff face hundreds of job cuts","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11226,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11225\/revisions\/11226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}