Staff at the Stornoway TSB branch are set to lose their jobs after the bank announced a round of closures.
The Stornoway bank is one of 36 branches being axed in September across the UK with the loss of 250 jobs.
The statement from TSB said: "The decision to close a branch is never taken lightly,
but our customers are now doing most of their banking digitally and we need to move
to a better balance of digital and face-to-face services.
"We remain committed to a national branch network and through innovation and integration
with video, telephone, digital, branch and other face-to-face services TSB customers
have more ways to bank with us than ever before."
Unite the union, representing workers at TSB said the decision to cut 250 roles at the bank is “a grave mistake.”
Unite regional officer Andy Case said: “The decision by TSB to cut 250 roles is a grave mistake. These workers perform essential work in the fraud departments and across the branch network.
“Through extensive negotiations Unite has been able to substantially reduce the number of jobs at risk.
“However, that isn’t sufficient, the union is pressing TSB to urgently reconsider its damaging bank branch closures plan.
“At a time when customers are increasingly concerned about financial fraud and often need support from a local bank branch this is the wrong course of action.
“TSB customers will rightly be concerned by today’s news and they will undoubtedly suffer a downgrade in service from these job cuts.
“Unite will hold fresh negotiations with TSB about ways of further reducing job losses and it will be fully supporting its members affected by the announcement.”
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