Dec 04 Unite & Barclays Sign Local Collective Agreement
Following the announcement made to staff this morning by Keith Bailey, Chief Country Officer for Barclays in Gibraltar and Christian Duo Acting Regional Officer for Unite. Christian Duo said that he is pleased with the new Local Collective Agreement that it reached with Barclays with regards to a one off additional payment for all displaced staff. This is in addition to the previously announced redundancy package.
This agreement was made possible because of the commitment by Unite and Barclays to work in collaboration, and the ongoing desire from both sides to support all the impacted staff in Gibraltar.
This agreement is exclusive for Gibraltar, and remains valid until 31 December 2016.
We have stressed to Barclays the unique situation that exists in Gibraltar and that we felt a different approach should be taken. Unite is pleased that Barclays has recognised this and has agreed to the enhanced redundancy package.
Unite remains opposed to these planned redundancies, and we are maintaining lines of communication with Barclays, and in particular with Keith Bailey here in Gibraltar and also the HR Team based in London, to try and look at ways to increase the number of retained staff, over and above the 14 roles that were initially announced.
We are extremely pleased to have managed to secure with this agreement, that Barclays retain 1 member of staff within the Mortgage Team until at least mid 2015, and also 1 permanent role within IT.
In addition we will continue to engage with our members in order to gain further information, which will assist us in our continued effort to try and increase the final number of retained staff at Barclays in Gibraltar.
Unite also continues to lobby HMGOG regarding the possibilities of any expansion plans for the Gibraltar Savings Bank, or indeed if there are any negotiations taking place with any new banking institutions, that may be considering offering retail banking services in Gibraltar.
