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Npower to cut thousands of NE jobs

12 March 2016

By Lauren E. White

UK energy giant Npower is reported to be preparing to cut 2,5000 jobs, many of which may well be in Sunderland.

The news comes after the firm’s German owners RWE revealed that the company’s success will decline after taking a £1.6 billion hit on Npower’s UK and German power stations.

Job cuts represent approximately a fifth of one of the Big Six’s 11,500 UK employees, and are expected to hit areas including the north of England hardest.

In December last year, Npower was fined a huge sum of £26 million by Ofgem, the energy industry’s regulator, for its failure to bill customers correctly and deal with complaints to an effective standard.

While the exact locations of job losses are yet to be revealed, the rumours come from members of staff claiming they were told unofficially “months ago” to expect job losses in 2016.

Many people in the north have spoken out about the so-called northern powerhouse, with Eamon O’Hearn of the GMB union, adding: “It [the job cuts] makes a mockery of George Osborne’s rhetoric about a northern powerhouse if an energy company can’t maintain jobs in the region.”

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