70 redundancies at Austin-Smith Lord

摘要

Austin-Smith Lord has been forced to make 70 staffredundant and place a further 13 on notice because of late-paying clients and the suspension of a major Middle Eastern project. The practice has been struggling to pay staffand suppliers for the past three months and was forced to make 40 London staff redundant on Tuesday night. It has also laid off 30 staff in its Cardiff, Liverpool, Manchester and Glasgow offices because of delays to payments on UK projects.