City & Guilds scraps mass redundancies and offshoring UK jobs to Greece

Vocational training provider City & Guilds’s owner reached a deal with the union Unite to largely avoid compulsory job losses. Photograph: Monty Rakusen/Getty Images

The vocational training body City & Guilds has guaranteed that plans for mass compulsory redundancies and the offshoring of hundreds of UK jobs to Greece will no longer go ahead.

The proposal to remove about 400 UK roles was first reported by the Guardian in December as part of a £22m cost-cutting drive after the acquisition of the charity’s training and awards business by the Greek-owned PeopleCert in October.