City Link’s collapse could hit more than 4,000 jobs

Owner dismisses union’s claims of asset stripping as staff warned to brace themselves for ‘substantial redundancies’Job losses from the collapse of City Link could rise to more than 4,000 after it emerged that the parcel delivery firm partly relied on a 1,000-strong army of self-employed van drivers and agency workers.The Coventry-based company – which counted John Lewis and Mothercare among its customers – told its 2,727 staff to brace themselves for “substantial redundancies�