Jul 4 2008 by Graeme King, The Journal THE crisis in the housebuilding industry saw Barratt announce around 1,000 jobs losses yesterday, with 50 set to go at the company’s Newcastle office. The deep cuts – more than one in seven of the company’s 6,700 UK workforce -– have been announced in the wake of all the company’s main rivals also making cutbacks. On Wednesday, the country’s biggest housebuilder Taylor Wimpey said it was cutting 900 jobs from its 4,700-strong workforce. And Persimmon from York is also considering redundancies from its North East workforce, as part of nationwide cutbacks. Barratt said yesterday it had entered consultation with its employees over the cutbacks among the group’s 6,700 staff in an overhaul of the business which will see offices in Chester and Sheffield closed. A Barratt spokesman said: “Our...
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