{"id":163994,"date":"2021-01-27T12:59:33","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T12:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/john-lewis-staff-to-learn-fate-as-retail-giant-presses-on-with-job-cuts\/"},"modified":"2021-08-06T12:10:02","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T12:10:02","slug":"john-lewis-staff-to-learn-fate-as-retail-giant-presses-on-with-job-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/john-lewis-staff-to-learn-fate-as-retail-giant-presses-on-with-job-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"John Lewis staff to learn fate as retail giant presses on with job cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Staff at John Lewis Partnership\u2019s head office are set to learn their fate as the retail group pushes ahead with <strong>plans to cut around 1,500 jobs in a bid to cut costs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The employee-owned retail firm was <strong>contacting individual workers on Wednesday to tell them if they are risk of redundancy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In November, the company, which owns both the John Lewis department store business and Waitrose supermarkets, announced it would consult over a proposal to cut up to 1,500 roles.<\/p>\n<p>It will <strong>affect staff at its head office sites in Victoria, central London, and Bracknell, Berkshire.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The move is intended to<strong> help the business save around \u00a350m<\/strong> as part of wider plans to reduce its total costs by \u00a3300m.<\/p>\n<p>The head office cuts <strong>come on top of plans to shut eight John Lewis stores<\/strong> with the loss of 1,300 jobs and the closure of four Waitrose stores in a move affecting 124 staff.<\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman for the company said: \u201cThis refers to the 4 November 2020 update where we <strong>sadly proposed to reduce the size of our head office by April 2021.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese difficult but necessary changes will <strong>help us to create a simpler, pacier head office<\/strong> that enables us to deliver our five-year Partnership Plan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The spokeswoman added that the <strong>company will seek to redeploy workers affected by the cuts and will provide redundancy support<\/strong> and funding for retraining for staff whom they are unable to find new roles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff at John Lewis Partnership\u2019s head office are set to learn their fate as the retail group pushes ahead with plans to cut around 1,500 jobs in a bid to cut costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":142207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10494],"tags":[4503],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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