Redundancies At Fujitsu Services

EDM number 646 in 2009-10, proposed by Tony Lloyd on 19/01/2010.
Categorised under the topics of Employment and Information technology.

That this House is aware that Fujitsu Services provides vital services to the private sector and central and local government; notes that Fujitsu Services' profits more than doubled last year to the highest ever level of £177 million; recognises that Fujitsu was able to pay out £1.6 million in compensation for loss of office to two directors and contrasts this with its proposal to change its final salary pension scheme for its 11,000 UK-based employees that will see it closed to existing employees for future accrual phased in from March 2011, effectively amounting to a pay cut of 20 per cent.; further notes that Fujitsu Services still plans to make people compulsorily redundant on 31 January 2010 despite reducing the original proposed 1,200 job cuts down to fewer than 100; further notes that the company has imposed a pay freeze; understands that in reaction to this there have been six days of strike action by Unite members; and calls on Fujitsu management to address the genuine concerns of loyal and hard-working employees and for Fujitsu and Unite to sit down together and negotiate in good faith to resolve this dispute.

This motion has been signed by a total of 76 MPs.