The Register has reported the company cut back 130 workers at it's HQ near Burnley in Lancashire last week. But MD Tahir Mohsan will only admit to a figure of between 30 and 40 job losses. He also said that 60 per cent of people working at Time, weren't directly employed by the company, so any temporary contracts which hadn't been renewed would not be counted as job cuts. However Reg sources within Time say the last remaining temps on the manufacturing side of the business left the company several weeks ago and all the redundancies have been of full time staff.
Time is a private company and reluctant to reveal details about layoffs and store closures.
And it's because of this that Nigel Evan is calling for the company to come clean about its business. Evans is MP for the Ribble Valley, where Time and most of its staff are based, as well as vice chairman of the Conservative party. The firm should come clean about the job losses so the workforce can get help for those made redundant. Meanwhile, there is a very interesting Time Computers website that's been set up for current and ex-Time staff. Time is trying to shut the site down, and sadly, the community section contains a lot of racist comments so we've removed our link to it.