{"id":18202,"date":"2019-06-07T15:32:16","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T14:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=18202"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:56:26","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:56:26","slug":"forced-aviva-redundancies-challenged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=18202","title":{"rendered":"Forced Aviva redundancies to be challenged"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Unite has arranged urgent meetings with the management of Aviva after an announcement on Thursday (June 6) that the UK insurer would be shedding 1,800 jobs globally over the next three years in an effort to reduce costs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The announcement came from Aviva CEO\u00c2\u00a0Maurice\u00c2\u00a0Tulloch who confirmed the news at an investor&#8217;s day briefing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tulloch also\u00c2\u00a0said\u00c2\u00a0the company would be splitting the life and general insurance arms of its business and would manage them separately. The firm said it aims to achieve \u00c2\u0141300m in cost savings each year by 2022, and that it\u00c2\u00a0will try to\u00c2\u00a0achieve\u00c2\u00a0savings by &#8216;natural turnover&#8217; and voluntary redundancies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite Aviva officer Andy Case\u00c2\u00a0said the workforce was &#8220;shocked&#8221; by the news.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The scale of this\u00c2\u00a0role reduction will be met with disbelief across the company,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite\u00c2\u00a0have arranged\u00c2\u00a0urgent discussions with Aviva management in order to ascertain the rationale for cutting an already extremely stretched workforce,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Unite has made it clear to management that the union will strongly challenge any attempt to make compulsory redundancies. Instead, any staff reductions must be found through volunteers, natural attrition,\u00c2\u00a0reducing reliance on contractors\u00c2\u00a0and redeployment.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite workplace representatives will be at Aviva locations over the coming days and months to support the workforce through what will be a time of significant change and upheaval.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Aviva currently employs over\u00c2\u00a016,000\u00c2\u00a0staff at all grade across the UK and Northern Ireland, with\u00c2\u00a0UK sites in\u00c2\u00a0London, Norwich, York, Dorking, Bristol, Perth, Sheffield, Eastleigh and Glasgow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unite has arranged urgent meetings with the management of Aviva after an announcement on Thursday (June 6) that the UK insurer would be shedding 1,800 jobs globally over the next three years in an effort to reduce costs. &nbsp; The announcement came from Aviva CEO\u00c2\u00a0Maurice\u00c2\u00a0Tulloch who confirmed the news at an investor&#8217;s day briefing. &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"Unite calls for urgent assurances as Aviva announces 1800 global job losses","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18202"}],"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=18202"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25224,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18202\/revisions\/25224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}