Irwin Mitchell is making an entire department redundant, but denied that its personal injury business was struggling.
The firm is making everyone in its industrial deafness team in Southampton redundant, which includes eleven lawyers and three support staff. An inside source said they are all expected to leave with pay in lieu of notice and that the firm told them it was "struggling to secure new work" for the team. Which "seems a little concerning for a leading UK PI firm". Although perhaps factories are just getting better at handing out ear muffs.
Despite the redundancies, a spokesman for IM insisted, "our wider and well-respected PI team continues to grow" and "remains a very important part of our business". He said Irwin Mitchell had simply decided to "focus our hearing loss work in our Sheffield office". But Southampton staff need not worry, because the firm is "supporting them through the consultation process", a bit like holding a man's hand as you chop it off, and "working hard to find redeployment opportunities". Maybe in IT.
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The firm is making everyone in its industrial deafness team in Southampton redundant, which includes eleven lawyers and three support staff. An inside source said they are all expected to leave with pay in lieu of notice and that the firm told them it was "struggling to secure new work" for the team. Which "seems a little concerning for a leading UK PI firm". Although perhaps factories are just getting better at handing out ear muffs.
"I used to instruct Irwin Mitchell all the time. Not any more. Now I cannot even hear my wife and children screaming. Maybe they'll make a claim instead!" |
Despite the redundancies, a spokesman for IM insisted, "our wider and well-respected PI team continues to grow" and "remains a very important part of our business". He said Irwin Mitchell had simply decided to "focus our hearing loss work in our Sheffield office". But Southampton staff need not worry, because the firm is "supporting them through the consultation process", a bit like holding a man's hand as you chop it off, and "working hard to find redeployment opportunities". Maybe in IT.
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The Southampton Office of IM is going to be very empty now given that the third floor while kitted out back in 2008 has never been occupied and the 2nd floor which contained mostly PI bods is going to be emptied.
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McDonald's 2015 revenue was USD25bn - rather be a burger flipper there than work at IM!
Also, a large part of ROF are from large city firms so your (meaningless) revenue figure looks rather small.
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