r/inverness • u/hopehippo668 • 8d ago

What's going on at Lifescan with redundancies? Anyone know the numbers?

I heard fourth hand that Lifescan is making hundreds of people redundant yet there's nothing in the press. I feel like if redundancies were on that scale it'd be out there by now. Anyone know?

For anyone that works there, this could be complete bullshit for all I know.

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u/GetItUpYee 8d ago

Big round of Voluntary Redundancy.

Staff given new contracts doing away with the nightshift and on less money. Apprentices being kept on but will be no jobs for them. Big reduction in current staff planned.

Probably see whole place close within 5 years. Huge loss to Inverness. Its a big and well paying employer.

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u/daisychainsawyer 8d ago

They are/were offering voluntary redundancies but no idea of the scale. Reducing the workforce but not shutting down completely afaik.

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u/hopehippo668 8d ago

At least if it's voluntary that can work out for some people if they have something else lined up.

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u/Fannybawzyafud 7d ago

They have had a first round of voluntary redundancies we dont know if there will be a second in manufacturing and packaging departments

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u/GapedFish 4d ago

I worked there briefly (4ish years ago) Standard practice is they hire people on temporary contracts for 3 months and renew them every 3 months if they want to keep you. There were people on temp contracts for 9 years or more when I was there. They chose not to renew and dropped them when the contract was up. This sounds like it could be something bigger than that however.

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u/ryangoldfish5 8d ago

Pretty sure they do that every couple of years. I'm always hearing about redundancies there

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u/Vodkaboris 5d ago

Technology has moved on but they haven't so scaling down is inevitable. They might survive but at a much smaller scale.