CITIZENS ADVICE charity warned yesterday that the number of people contacting its Aberdeen office about unfair redundancy from the oil and gas industry has doubled in the last year.

The charity has been advising hundreds of former workers over the past 12 months as industry experts predict that job losses will total 120,000 by the end of the year.

Its Aberdeen manager Zara Strange told BBC Scotland: “It’s not the fact that redundancies are required, I mean we all know that, it’s just the way people are being selected.”

Ms Strange warned that many workers were being unfairly chosen and were challenging their former employer on that basis.

Earlier in the week, the Unite union warned that health and safety standards in the sector had fallen in the past six months and over a third of members surveyed feared they would victimised if they reported a health and safety rule breach