CSC is planning a further 640 UK redundancies which brings the total number of job losses to 1,100 this year, say Unite.

Unite have said they are disgusted with comments from the NOA who stated that, as a private company, CSC should be able to conduct their business as they see fit.

National Outsourcing Association Chairman Martyn Hart says: “If CSC were to offer voluntary redundancies, it would be the people it really wanted to keep who’d be first out of the door. The IT industry is experiencing major skill shortages, and genuine talent is in demand. The people volunteering for redundancies are most likely the ones who could quickly walk into a lucrative job elsewhere, the cobalt coders and suchlike.

“CSC simply cannot afford to lose all of its best talent as it goes through this transitional phase. Although so closely associated with the public sector, CSC is a private company which, in the face of adversity, should be able to choose how to reorganise its workforce as it sees fit.”