Employees at ITL Plc, in process of being acquired by apricot Computers Plc, are bracing themselves for a major lay-off tomorrow, when about 175 redundancies are expected to be announced: since the only aspects of the business that interest Apricot are the maintenance operation, the networking division and the Silicon Lab medical systems business, the fear is that only 30% of the current ITL staff will still be employed there in six months’ time.
