Lloyds TSB yesterday said it was planning to transfer up to 1,000 jobs from the UK to India by the end of next year in a move that could affect staff at the bank's North-East call centres.
The banking group said it had decided to increase the number of offshore staff it employs in locations in India to up to 2,500 from 1,500.
Lloyds TSB said it was confident it could achieve the transfers through natural wastage and redeployment of UK staff to other roles in the group.
However, union officials said the promise to achieve the job losses without redundancies was unrealistic.
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