Staff consulted over redundancies

Employer consults staff over redundancies 13/7/14

Staff have been undergoing one-to-one consultations over losing their jobs at maintenance services GSH Group.

The company proposes to shut its Harris office where 24 people work.

GSH - which is the largest private employer in Harris - plans centralise all its UK-wide operational and administration activities in its headquarters in England.

Bosses interviewed each employee separately in Tarbert. Further consultation sessions are planned, it is understood.

It is understood GSH representatives also held meetings with the Comhairle as well as Highlands and Islands Enterprise about the proposed office close-down.

The firm said it was reviewing its operational and support activities across all of its UK offices.

This is with a view to potentially creating a centralised administration function based in Stoke-on-Trent.

The back-office administration of the GSH group is run from Tarbert which is also the company’s fall-back disaster recovery base which would keep the firm running if its computer network systems failed.