Cyber Crime Adds Weight to Union Calls for Government Action Over Offshoring
By Ciaran Naidoo
Date: February 10, 2004
Source: naeurope
London (ots) - Amid revelations surrounding cyber crime amongst
British financial services firms in India. Amicus tell a Trade and
Industry select committee inquiry today 10/02/2004 that the DTI needs
to urgently investigate the impact offshoring will have on UK
employees and consumers.
Deloitte predictions that 200 000 financial services jobs could
be offshored by 2008 have sent alarm bells ringing for staff working
in the financial services.
News of staff in Indian call centres being bribed by organised
crime and industrial spies to help them gain access to the computer
systems of British firms will now send alarm bells ringing for
consumers of financial services products.
David Fleming National Secretary says
"It is becoming more and more apparent that offshoring is a murky
business which will have dire consequences for UK employees and
consumers. These revelations add further weight to our demands to the
Government to hold a full inquiry into the offshoring phenomenon"
Unions and MEPs are also launching a campaign today to get the
European Parliament to support a European wide plan to address the
offshoring of hundreds of thousands of jobs out of member states
boundaries.
The move comes on the same day as Westminster Trade and Industry
Select Committee investigates offshoring. Campaigners will ask MEPs
in Strasbourg to sign a Written Declaration supporting plans to deal
with offshoring. The Declaration calls on the Commission to produce a
report on the business case for and against offshoring^; to debate the
issue in the parliament^; and to co-ordinate member states response to
technological change as part of a pan European industrial policy.
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