Global cash machine and electronics giant NCR has moved to axe around 70 jobs at its research and development operation in Dundee.
It is understood that affected staff in the hardware operations side of the business were told their jobs were under threat on Thursday morning, and a 30-day consultation period over the redundancies has now begun.
All staff at the Gourdie Industrial Estate facility believed to be around 400 in total were then called to a mass meeting where they were appraised of the situation by managers.
NCR confirmed that jobs were going as part of a wider “alignment” of company operations.
However, a spokesman refused to comment on any specific questions posed by The Courier about the redundancies and whether NCR remained committed in the long-term to Dundee.
The company once one of Dundee’s largest industrial employers cut hundreds of jobs in 2007 and it finally shut down its cash machine assembly operations in the city in 2009.
That factory has now been razed and is being replaced by a new-build Asda supermarket.
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