Osborne chief takes aims at clients as firm begins redundancy programme

By Dave Rogers2020-06-12T05:00:00

Contractor says turnover has dropped 30% since covid-19 crisis escalated

Osborne’s chief executive has said not enough clients are preparing to help out main contractors and pick up the costs of the covid-19 pandemic as the firm began a jobs cutting programme yesterday which will see 75 staff axed.

The company, which was set up in 1966, formally started a consultation process to pare back its 1,200-strong workforce after income slumped 30% in April and May.

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