A number of jobs are under threat at four Johnston Press centres as a result of plans to centralise pre-press planning.
The company announced last week that pre-press activity would be centralised into two hubs based at its newspaper centres in Sheffield and Sunderland.
Should the proposal go ahead, planning work currently undertaken in Leeds and Northampton will transfer to Sheffield while activity at Edinburgh and Carn will transfer to Sunderland.
A seven-week consultation began last Thursday and is due to be completed by 7 July.
In a further announcement, the company said it proposed to disband the output team at its Kettering-based subsidiary Northamptonshire Newspapers Ltd.
Paul Wealleans, director of group prepress services, said that it would mean a reduction of five roles with a redeployment opportunity for two of the staff to the pre-press property team in Northampton.
The company has confirmed that in addition to those roles it is in consultation with 12 staff on TUPE transfer in relation to the centralisation plan.
However it is unclear as yet whether this figure refers only to Northampton or whether other centres are similarly affected.
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A nice four hour commute to and fro for the Northampton employees then.
Google directions estimates that as £38.88 fuel costs for the round trip each day, or about £770 a month on that logic. Lucky we are all paid so well.
Still, if you can wrangle it on expenses somehow it could be a decent earner, every cloud…
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It’s classic Black Hole behaviour – JP will eventually contract sufficiently to implode and become invisible.
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