Up to 170 jobs are at risk at the debt advice charity StepChangebecause of reduced demand for its services.
The charity has slightly more than 1,500 staff, according to its latest accounts, in offices around the UK.
Unite the union said in a statement that the StepChange offices in Leeds and Newcastle upon Tyne would be the hardest hit,while pay levels for its remaining employees will be frozen.
The union said the charitys management had declined to consult its members to try to avoid the redundancies and had instead announced the decision to make about 10 per cent of the workforce redundant within weeks.
The redundancies had been planned to go ahead before the end of furlough and only months before a massive and imminent upsurge in dem…
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