STV NewsDozens more jobs are to go at Grangemouth as a knock-on effect of the closure of refinery operations.
On Thursday afternoon, a letter was sent to staff at INEOS Olefins and Polymers UK – separate to the PetroIneos closure of the oil refinery.
Earlier this month, more than 400 Petroineos workers found out they were being made redundant.
Thursday’s letter said: “The result of that will inevitably be a smaller organisation that means we will need less support services”.
The additional redundancies are from the six parts of the business “directly providing utilities or services to the Refinery”.
These include hydrocarbons, utilities, labs, IT, stores and emergency first response.
INEOS Olefins and Polymers UK said the consultation process will get under way and it will try to avoid compulsory redundancies.
The first tranche of job losses of around 24 will come in labs and stores with more to follow.
Unite the union had warned that closing the refinery would just be the start of such announcements.
At the Scottish Labour Conference on Sunday, the Prime Minister announced £200m to help attract new business. This came after the First Minister offered up £25m earlier this month.
Next week, detailed plans for possible new jobs at Grangemouth will be published in the Project Willow report.
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