JOBS are being moved to Scotland by media giant Virgin as part of a major restructure.

The posts are being moved from Wales to North Lanarkshire, making the Scottish call centre the firm's primary outsource location.

The company announced that 220 of the 800 jobs axed from a call centre in Swansea will be moving to the site in Bellshill where 295 employees are already based.

Virgin is also cutting the number of its customer service bases in the UK from eight to four and will centralise operations in Manchester.

The company's chief executive Tom Mockridge said: "Last year Virgin Media began a three-year property investment programme to create fewer, higher-quality work places to better support our people, our business and growing customer base.

"As a result, we plan to invest an additional £40m over the next three years to refurbish key sites and acquire new alternative sites. As part of this we intend to create four regional customer operations hubs while increasing the flexibility of our customer services resources.

"As a consequence, we have proposed the customer operations roles currently based at our Swansea site will transfer to either one of our partners or to a soon to be refurbished site at Wythenshawe near Manchester.

"The majority of the remaining roles will relocate to alternative sites across the UK. This means that our site in Swansea will close by the autumn of 2019."

He added: "We are now working with, and supporting, all employees who have been asked to relocate, who may be in a role at risk of redundancy or who may wish to take another role with Virgin Media or one of our partners."