In the wake of fresh job cuts in energy giant Centrica, GMB Scotland has branded Chief Executive Iain Conn’s 44 per cent pay increase as ‘obscene’.
Four days after customer service workers in Glasgow and Edinburgh operations were told that jobs were under threat as part of a 4,000 post reduction by 2020, the company has confirmed its Chief Executive’s pay rose to an eye-watering £2.4 MILLION.
Centrica – the company which owns British Gas and Scottish Gas – warned last year that 4,000 jobs would go, with call centre staff at Glasgow’s City Park and Edinburgh’s Granton Waterfront HQ firmly in the firing line.
Management admitted last week that Hive operations will be relocated to Romania by the end of the year, with management seeking volunteers from City Park to train their replacements in Romania.
Hive is one of the only growth parts of the business at the moment and it is a key part of the future of the company.
The pay rise means Conn now earns seventy-two times more than the average staff member in customer service operations whose livelihoods are now uncertain.
GMB Scotland Organiser Hazel Nolan said: “It is absolutely obscene that less than a week after the second wave of a 4,000 job cuts plan was announced, Iain Conn has received this massive pay increase.
“Staff that have been told their jobs are being shipped to Eastern Europe for a fraction of the price will be outraged and it’s difficult to find the words to describe the absolute injustice of this – it represents everything that going wrong in our labour market today.
“Under Iain Conn’s leadership this once great British institution is being run into the ground. Millions of customers have been lost, prices have been hiked and thousands of jobs have been cut.
“GMB will do everything we can to mitigate the imminent cuts affecting our members but morale is already at rock bottom and this latest news simply compounds the misery – it’s a massive two fingers to staff struggling at coal face of this company.”
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