Commonwealth Bank is poised to cut nearly 200 jobs this month, bringing the total job losses at the company to over a thousand in just one year.
The Financial Sector Union has confirmed that 192 jobs will be lost from back office operations in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth due to an “automation initiative”.The union says that 87 jobs will be lost in Commonwealth Bank’s home buying operations division, 47 jobs in consumer finance, and 21 jobs in the everyday banking team.The latest round of cuts has occurred due to a downturn in retail banking in the past 12 months impacting the everyday banking and home buying operations teams.
The bank also told FSU that “automation initiatives” in the two parts ofthe company have allowed for a “simplified process” that requires less workers.FSU National Secretary Julia Angrisano slammed the decision to make more staff redundant after CBA posted a full-year profit of $10.18 billion. “It is clear that the CBA has no hesitation throwing workers onto the unemployment queue in its relentless campaign to cut costs and boost profits,” Ms Angrisano said.“Workers in the financial services sector should be enormously concerned that Australia’s largest bank is now making workers redundant because of automation.”“CBA has a huge problem with staff shortages and excessive workloads and cutting staff does nothing to reduce that concern for workers.
“The jobs being lost are specialists across a range of areas and it is hard to believe that the bank can afford to lose so many experienced staff at the same time that it has a significant overwork problem across the organisation.”There’s a new way workplaces are tracking their employees – but it’s worth checking your contract to see if it’s illegal.The world needs a lot more copper to transition to an electric vehicle age and one mining giant is using AI to help solve the supply crisis.
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