Jobs cut at Wedgwood

UP TO 100 Wedgwood office staff are believed to have been axed this morning.

Administrator Deloitte called in support workers at 9.30am to be told the news.

One Wedgwood employee, who did not want to be named, said after the meeting: "As of a few minutes ago I stopped being a Wedgwood employee.

"They have made about 100 support workers redundant.

"We will be paid until the end of the day and then we have to apply for redundancy payments.

"The administrator told us there just wasn't the money to carry on paying us.

"There are people who have gone who have been working there for 18, 20 or 25 years."

About 600 production could learn more about their futures at meetings with the administrators this afternoon.

Wedgwood fell into administration last week after lenders refused to give the debt-ridden company more time to find extra funding.