22 lose their jobs as SME business moves to Cardiff
Zurich has confirmed that 22 workers in its Belfast office will lose their jobs at the end of the month as its SME business is transferred to Cardiff, The Belfast Telegraph reports
Only 12% of the business they handled was based in Northern Ireland and the rest came from other parts of the UK, a spokeswoman said.
Zurich’s Belfast office will continue to employ around 50 members of staff.
Committed to Northern Ireland
Zurich trades a huge amount of broker business in Northern Ireland and we are fully committed to staying in Belfast. We've moved SME Package business to our Cardiff office because they have an operational set-up which will allow us to handle this business faster," the spokeswoman said.
The affected staff were placed on redundancy notice in July.
