The insurance arm of Norwich Union will see the loss of 1800 jobs over the next 2 years, the parent company Aviva revealed today.
Sites affected by the cuts will continue to offer services to other parts of the business and the company will maintain its 52 offices around the country.
Changing customer demands have been blamed for the job losses that will see 22 sites consolidated into seven. The seven ‘centres’ are located in Norwich, Perth, Bishopsbriggs, Stretford, Manchester, Leicester and Southend.
Sites that will be hit by losses are Dundee, Glasgow, Leeds, Sheffield, Liverpool, Cheadle, Birmingham, Bristol, Southampton, Basildon, Ipswich, Exeter and Worthing.
Aviva have said that the job losses are necessary to simplify it’s operations following mergers with Commercial Union, General Accident and Norwich Union.
Graham Goddard deputy general secretary for Unite, the union representing the workers facing job losses was ‘devastated’ by the news, saying:
“The union now has serious questions about how Aviva will be able to deliver on their commitment to ‘One Aviva, twice the value’, with one more round of brutal job cuts.”
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