Up to 33 jobs could go at a Telford consultancy firm after it lost a work contract.
A consultation period has begun at Higham Dunnett Shaw to see if other job vacancies are available within the group for affected workers.
The company, which has been in Grosvenor House in Central Park, for four years, provides “specialist consultancy and service delivery solutions” to the life and pensions industry.
Operations director Donald Grant said: “When we are consulting people about redundancies we give them a month’s consultation to see if there are any other jobs coming up in the company.”
He said some of those affected might choose to apply for other jobs within the group.
Mr Grant said: “Up to 33 could go over the next month. A lot of our work is project based. The project these people are working on is coming to an end.”
He said the firm had held the contract for about three years, but was unsuccessful when it submitted a bid for the tender again.
Staff were told about the job threat yesterday. The firm employs 450 people nationwide, with about 60 at the Telford site.
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Yet ANOTHER job LOSS for Telford!
Before you know it there will be no jobs left.
When are we going to see jobs coming IN to the area (and I don’t mean unskilled jobs)?
Telford’s finished as is the rest of the UK for proper employment. More has to be done by the Govt to prevent companies taking their work overseas just to add to their profits.
We’ve got a great work force in this country but agains that’s changing as more people seek to move abroad for much better opportunities.
Isn’t it about time our MP did something to bring business to Telford. Too many companies moving overseas. Shouldn’t we be inviting foreign firms to open factories in Telford? Is anyone actually bothered about our economy?
For Steve Lye
What can the government do ? If it is cheaper for an employer to move elsewhere they will.
As the article states this firm lost a contract and what was the reason for that they were probably too expensive when compared to the competition.
Every boom ends in a bust.
Telford is losing jobs faster than jobs are being created, yet the focus is on more private housing being built?
I thought most of us need a JOB to pay the mortgage,
Telford should aim to at high Tec skilled jobs for example aerospace industry and offer more of an incentive for foreign firms to invest , as it has been done in the past.
companys that move abroad and creat unemployment here should not be allowed to import its products back to this country full stop.
I agree with Dean. We need to have high skill high value jobs. More needs to be done to encourage firms to invest in this type of employment. Telford managed it with the plastics industry, and is a centre of excellence in the UK. Telord has also been very successful in attracting Japanese investment. The next high value sector needs to identified and targeted by local and national government