Last updated: Wednesday 19 صفر 1442 هـ – October 07, 2020 KSA 19:58 – GMT 16:58
Date of publication: Wednesday 19 صفر 1442 هـ – October 07, 2020 KSA 19:31 – GMT 16:31 Source: Dubai – Arabia.net
The cuts will be focused on the retail and global banking division, Bloomberg cited two sources familiar with the matter. The bank has 1,700 employees in the United Arab Emirates.
A spokesman for the bank confirmed that the bank had canceled those jobs. He said that the bank will pay the employees who will be laid off the equivalent of their salaries until the end of the year, in addition to the end of service bonus.
The UAE is the largest market for Standard Chartered Bank in the Middle East and Africa. The region suffered from difficult conditions during the first half of 2020, after the decline in oil prices.
And an analysis conducted by Bloomberg Agency showed, earlier, that more than 30 international banks in Europe, North America, Asia and Africa have retrenched the number of their employees after they stopped doing so during the period of closures due to the Corona crisis.
The analysis indicated that the total losses in the announced jobs in the banking sector since the beginning of this year amounted to about 64 thousand jobs.
Citigroup announced this week that it was resuming job cuts, targeting less than 1% of its global workforce.
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