Motorway jobs face axe as minister opens new offices

THE firm which maintains some of Scotland’s busiest motorways will start redundancy interviews with staff as transport minister Keith Brown opens its new offices, The Scotsman has learned.

Keith Brown is scheduled to open TransServ's new offices. Picture: PA

Some 15 staff are expected to lose their jobs at Scotland TranServ, which won a five-year contract in April to look after trunk roads in Glasgow and across south-west Scotland, including the M8.

The move comes as Mr Brown is due to open the organisation’s new Glasgow offices, at Oatlands House in Polmadie, on Tuesday.

The firm, a joint venture between Balfour Beatty and Mouchel, said about 30 of its 300-strong workforce were “under consultation”, although some of these are expected to be redeployed.

A spokeswoman for the government’s Transport Scotland agency, which manages the maintenance contract, said: “While staff restructuring is a matter for Scotland TranServ, we fully expect them to fulfil their contractual obligations.”