200 Maersk Jobs At Risk

Published 26th Aug 2015

200 jobs onshore and offshore are at risk, as oil firm Maersk announced potential redundancies.

It's mostly down to planned shift pattern changes which would see workers on the rigs for three weeks at a time.

But there are long term worries about the recovery of industry, following the Chinese stock market slump.

The country's one of the biggest markets in the world for oil, and the price of a barrel on Brent Crude has been below 45 dollars since Black Monday.

Later today Scotland's Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie will give a speech in Aberdeen - he'll call for a cut in corporation tax to boost investment and exporation.