More Job Losses at Wigan Heinz Factory

A Wigan bean factory has made more staff redundant, and has outsourced two departments to Romania.

One source, who wishes to remain anonymous, claims that 14 jobs have been lost at Heinz's National Distribution Centre in Kitt Green after the company decided to outsource its telesales and customer services departments.

The source claims that a number staff from the affected departments have been redeployed elsewhere within the company, but that where an alternative position could not be located, some workers have had to lose their jobs. It is believed a total of 13 full-time positions have been lost.

The source said:

"The departments being outsourced to Romania are Telesales, who process orders, and Customer Service, who managed the orders and provided a point of contact between Heinz and their customers (Tesco, Asda, etc).

"Several staff have been redeployed within the company, the remainder have been made redundant, with official finish dates last Friday through to early November."

Heinz confirmed that it is in the process of implementing a new structure which has seen some day-to-day services outsourced and that this had led to some redundancies.

However, it did not comment on how many staff had been affected, and did not comment on claims that the departments had been outsourced to Romania.

The news comes 18 months after 71 jobs were lost at the processing plant when parts of the production line were automated to increase efficiency.

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