Southern Cross Travel to shed 45 jobs

Southern Cross Travel to shed 45 jobs
Brent Melville
Southern Cross Travel Insurance plans to cut half of its remaining workforce in the wake of limited travel under covid-19 restrictions, although the rest of the group remains unscathed. The company has proposed shedding 45 of its 92 staff as part of a wider action that will affect other areas of the travel insurance business, said chief executive Chris White. Southern Cross Travel had already reduced its head count by 26 people at the start of the pandemic when international border closures first took hold, discontinuing arrangements with...

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