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Financial Services Financial And Insurance Activities Insurance, Reinsurance And Pension Funding, Except Compulsory Social Security 65 - Insurance, reinsurance and pension funding, except compulsory social security
New offshoring locations
140 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
26 September 2012
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2013
Description
Outsourcing agency Diligenta has announced that it is to cut 140 at its Liverpool office.
The company plans to offshore the administration of life and pension policies to Kolkata in India. 74 jobs have already been lost at the site. A further 40 will be lost this year, and another 100 jobs will go in 2013. The company has stated that it will not make any compulsory redundancies.
Sources
26 September 2012: Insidermedia
Citation
Eurofound (2012), Diligenta, Offshoring/Delocalisation in United Kingdom, factsheet number 74313, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/74313.
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