Learning Pool says decision to seek redundancies was ‘not taken lightly’

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00:00um so it's gsp um 102 forward slash 25 and it was the bt announcement and i do welcome some

00:07of the meetings that we have had although it's been really disappointing and the last one was

00:11i think a fortnight ago where we met with the unions and even at that meeting it was really

00:17disappointing how the unions have been engaging or how bt have been engaging with the unions rather

00:23um and the response that they were receiving in terms of some of the suggestions that they

00:28were putting forward um around trying to save the jobs that they're going at bt but it's on a

00:34similar vein and it's in relation to learning pool um here in the city um learning pool are a global

00:41organization and they're here in in this city and provide employment really good employment to um

00:47quite a number of people um unfortunately um a number of weeks ago we did hear that they were

00:54engaging in a redundancy program um there wasn't too much talk about it but i have since been

01:01contacted by quite a number of employees who have been affected and i have to say i have always believed

01:08that learning pool was a really good organization within the city and provided really good jobs um

01:13unfortunately some of the stuff that i am being told by employees is in relation to how this process

01:20was announced how it has been conducted and how they have been engaging with some of the staff that

01:25have been involved and i know the process of redundancy is a global process that they have embarked on

01:31but it's in relation to the people of this council area who are affected so what they have asked of me

01:38is that we as a council engage with learning pool on the same basis that we engage with bt regarding their

01:46redundancy process um just to try and clear up or get clarity on some of the issues that they feel

01:52that they're struggling with and i think that um if i can make that a proposal today mayor um that we

01:59set up a meeting with learning pool just to discuss the redundancy process that they are going through

02:04at the minute um to try and support some of the staff that are going through that and get answers and

02:10clarity do some of the concerns that they have okay thank you councillor dafi that's all right

02:17so we content is everybody content i can second that is everyone content yeah happy