supporting redundancy within clyde shipyards - october 2001 to present

PACE Seminar, June 12th 2003

Supporting Redundancy within Clyde Supporting Redundancy within Clyde ShipyardsShipyards

- October 2001 to present- October 2001 to present

Julie Macdonald, HR Advisor


Introduction to BAE SYSTEMS, Naval Ships

Company was founded by Alfred Yarrow on the Thames River, Isle of Dogs, in 1865 and moved to the River Clyde in 1906 During a period of expansion between 1965 and 1974, there were many re-organisational changes as they moved from being family owned, to re-grouping into Upper Clyde Shipbuilding (1967)

Re-privatisation (1971); Nationalisation (1977) then followed

De-nationalisation and acquisition by GEC plc in 1985

Became part of Marconi Naval Systems in 1998

Re-named BAE SYSTEMS Marine Limited (after merger) in 1999

Acquired Kvaerner Shipbuilding, Govan, later that year


Process of Shipbuilding

Concept

Build

Design

Launch

Outfit

Trial & Commission

Customer


Redundancy facing Clyde Workforce - July 2001

Clyde Taskforce

Strategy StrandOutplacement

Strand Skills Strand


Outplacement Strand (Redundancy Management Programme)

“ ….to bring forward and implement a full

series of measures designed to assist workers

threatened with redundancy to move into

alternative employment or training either prior

to, or as close to, the point of redundancy…. ”



1,000 redundancies announced July 2001 (30% of workforce)

Clyde Shipbuilding Task Force established

Benchmarking exercise by HR Dept of external & internal redundancy management centres

Employee Support Centres set up in both Scotstoun & Govan with the support of our Trade Unions

Centres first of kind for Clyde sites - investing in leavers


The Team

Right Coutts– outplacement consultants under contract to BAE SYSTEMS

The Glasgow PACE Team

– Scottish Enterprise Glasgow – Glasgow City Council– Employment Service– REACT



Voluntary redundancy offered - with nearly 350 employees taking this option over the following months

Centres opened in October 2001 - initially supporting volunteers

150 Compulsory redundancies of steelworkers and supervisors,took place January to May 2002

Approx. 500 Job losses were mitigated by a number of in-house initiatives such as re-training (steelworkers to electricians, trades to draughting engineers); redeployment and re-allocation of work from Barrow to Clyde


BAE 0808 100 8094

Programme Centre Employment Service

Inland Revenue

Benefits Agency

Further EducationColleges

Scottish Enterprise &Small Business Gateway

Coutts Consulting

LearndirectScotland

nextmoves Centre


Holistic approach - ‘fit for the future’

Based on the existing service provision of Employment Service and REACT, services were project managed by Right Coutts -and included:

One-to-one coaching to enable/motivate self-help

Vocational guidance interviews to establish possible career change or development options; CV Workshops; Pre-retirement courses

Personal Development Programmes

Job Seeking Skills Workshops

Access to the Job Transition Scheme Action Fund which can support individuals towards sustainable outcomes


Services provided contd..

Common shared registration and client database systems

Help line / call centre

Access to national and local training programmes

Job Fairs on site

Employment service job database available in both centres

Access to independent financial planning advice

Access to Welfare Benefits advice

Redundancy counselling for employees and their families


Challenges

Timescales for the Redundancy Programme constantly changing - BAE SYSTEMS release dates shifting

Low utilisation of the Call Centre/help line

Extensive active encouragement of ex-employees to use the Centres - former employees live throughout the Strathclyde region

Motivation of employees to change careers/location

Gas services (Transco) training centre moved from Anniesland to Paisley - resulted in a funding issue and severe delay in commencing training


Right Coutts Contract Targets

Example:

Within 90 days of being made redundant, 50% of employees either

- in a new job, - registered for training,

- self employment or - business start up

Within 180 days of being made redundant, 75% of employees with one of the above


Outcome

Successful partnership overall, well managed Centres

Regular meetings held throughout the Redundancy Programme, with all partners represented

220 registrations with the Employee Support Centres

- Over 70% of employees were settled into employment, self- employment, re-training or further education

- 5% retired & 12% did not wish to seek further employment

BAE SYSTEMS, Naval Ships, chose the same format when 265 redundancies were announced February 2003. To date there has been no compulsory redundancies.

supporting redundancy within clyde shipyards - october 2001 to present

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