East Kilbride to lose 104 jobs
Friday 08 March 2013
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EmailOver 100 workers at a South Lanarkshire firm which makes household cleaning products are to lose their jobs.
Jeyes told 104 staff at its factory in East Kilbride on Thursday that the site will be closed and production shifted to Norfolk following a review of the "profitability and sustainability" of the Scottish factory.
Jeyes interim operations director Eric Houston claimed that a counter-proposal to transfer some manufacturing but keep part of the work going in East Kilbride "did not offer a robust solution."
East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow Labour MP Michael McCann said the news was "a devastating blow" for staff, the trade unions and local management.
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