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DHL and TOG reveal job cut plans
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By Jaarin:i ,ourke
LOGISTICS GIANTS DHL Supply Chain and TDG have proposed almost 2(X) job cuts at sites across the UK due to slumps in customers' business.
DHL has entered a consultation period with 111 employees as a result of its proposals to shut the Marks & Spencer (M&S) sortation centre at Leicester.
A DHL spokesman says: "DHL can confirm it is entering a period of consultation with their staff, and with the relevant representative forums at the Leicester sortation centre. This is a result of an ongoing strategic supply chain review conducted by M&S."
The proposal is the latest in a series of M&S-related closures. In March, the retail giant ceased operations at its Exeter DC, run by DHL, and, in the same month, DHL made 60 redundancies after the closure of its Stakehill base in Middleton, Manchester.
The centre closure came on the back of lower M&S volumes in the region.
Meanwhile, TDG plans to make 87 staff redundant at a specialist chemical facility in Wilton-on Teesside as a consequence of a series of lost contracts.
TDG customers Dow Chemical Company and Croda International are to close their ethylene oxide and glycol operations at Wiltonon-Teesside in January.
Of the proposed TDG job cuts. 45 are in distribution. 31 in warehousing, eight in the workshop and three are office-based.
"We are faced with no choice but to make these redundancies. It was not something we took lightly," reveals TDG sector operations director Jim Currie.
"Our workforce is important to us, but we were forced to do it to ensure the site's survival and to protect the remaining staff."
TDG reveals that the job cuts will be conducted in stages.
The intention is to complete them by January 2010.