{"id":14659,"date":"2018-02-22T17:02:05","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T17:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=14659"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:59:08","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:59:08","slug":"british-gas-job-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=14659","title":{"rendered":"British Gas job losses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>British Gas bosses are being asked to explain by Unite why it is axing 4,000 jobs after its owner Centrica banked profits of \u00c2\u01411.25bn.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe plan by British Gas\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 owner Centrica to cut 4,000 jobs, while still reporting handsome group profits of \u00c2\u01411.25 billion needs to be put under the microscope,&#8221; said Unite regional coordinating officer Paresh Patel.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThese still large profits indicate that the company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s strategy is weighed towards dividends for shareholders at the expense of workers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 jobs. And I am sure that the highly remunerated directors won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be taking a hit to their fat pay cheques.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite will be asking for an urgent meeting with British Gas management to hear the business case in detail for these job losses \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the company has not been clear where these cuts will take place.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite represents about 300 British Gas field engineers across the UK and we will want to know how our members\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 jobs may be impacted by today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s statement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite is committed to working with the company to avoid compulsory job losses.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIronically, while the profits of the Centrica Group have fallen, the British Gas operation saw a three per cent increase in profits to \u00c2\u0141572 million.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bBritish Gas says that these job losses are needed to take into account any future energy price caps by the government \u00e2\u20ac\u201c we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t believe that workers should pay with their jobs because of such a proposal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bFurthermore, given the below inflation pay rises during the past few years and, despite the commitment by the company to preserve jobs, this is another slap in the face for workers at British Gas\/Centrica.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is reported that the company&#8217;s British workforce was already slashed by 2,100 roles on a like-for-like basis in 2017, taking the total number of job cuts to 5,500 since the start of 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Gas bosses are being asked to explain by Unite why it is axing 4,000 jobs after its owner Centrica banked profits of \u00c2\u01411.25bn. &nbsp; \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe plan by British Gas\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 owner Centrica to cut 4,000 jobs, while still reporting handsome group profits of \u00c2\u01411.25 billion needs to be put under the microscope,&#8221; said Unite regional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[512,126],"wps_subtitle":"Unite calls for urgent meeting with firm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14659"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14659"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26379,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14659\/revisions\/26379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}