An MP has accused Vodafone of adding "insult to injury" to workers after a senior manager in England posed in a See You Jimmy hat on a company Facebook page ahead of Glasgow job cuts.

Glasgow Central MP Alison Thewliss raised the gaffe, revealed by STV News on Wednesday, in the Commons during leader of the house Andrea Leadsom's business statement on Thursday.

The telecoms giant's UK consumer operations director Antonio Shabbbir, who manages 6000 customer services staff across the UK, was also pictured with a bottle of Irn-Bru in the since deleted post.

The company announced at the end of January that more than 300 staff based in Glasgow's Berkeley Square offices would have their jobs shifted to three centres in Manchester, Stoke-on-Trent and Newbury in Berkshire - or face redundancy.

Employees were told Vodafone was changing its shape in response to competition from rival telecom and technology firms.

Thewliss, whose constituency includes the Vodafone offices in Berkeley Square, called for a Commons debate on how companies treat their workers.

The Glasgow Central MP continued: "According to STV News, a senior manager based in England was pictured posing with Irn-Bru and a See You Jimmy hat on.

"This just adds insult to injury to the staff in Glasgow who are facing losing their jobs on poorer terms of redundancy than those who lost their jobs just a few months ago.

"This is no way to treat employees, would the leader of the house agree?"

Leadsom replied: "It sounds like the supposed joke was in extremely poor taste and I certainly would agree with her that, in issues where a business has to relocate jobs, the greatest sensitivity needs to be paid to those who will have to relocate or lose their jobs as a result.

"She's absolutely right in that regard and she may well want to seek an adjournment debate so she can raise her concerns directly with ministers."

Vodafone apologised "unreservedly" for the image, posted on Wednesday by the firm's senior transformation manager John Lowe.

The caption to the picture of Mr Shabbir, based in Berkshire, read: "Getting ready for this month's "Audience with Antonio"... some exciting news to share."

In Facebook replies seen by STV, one employee responded: "I'm appalled at this. Here we are in Scotland sitting at our desks waiting to hear news of our pending redundancies and this pops up?

"What's the exciting news? 'We've binned 350+ Scottish members of staff' - I am ashamed today of this organisation and how it conducts its comms around the group... completely tone deaf."

Other Vodafone workers claimed the post was "truly awful" and amounted to "casual xenophobia".

STV News understands Mr Shabbir personally informed Glasgow staff of the potential redundancies, and that he was scheduled to be involved in one-to-one meetings starting on Thursday but is now not attending.

It is the first wave of several meetings to be held in the coming months, with the company aiming to agree redundancy or relocation terms for around 360 affected staff by the end of April.

Speaking on Wednesday, a Vodafone UK spokeswoman said the Facebook post was "an internal event,", adding: "No offence was meant and we apologise unreservedly."

In a further statement, the company said: "Our teams are currently spread out in smaller offices across the UK; we are moving some people into larger centres of excellence across our consumer, digital and technology operations.

"This will impact 312 employees currently based in our Glasgow office. Our consultation process is ongoing with these employees to assess their individual circumstances.

"We want to retain as many of the people affected by these changes as possible.

"We are not moving out of Scotland or closing our Glasgow office.

"We will still have a sizeable employee base of around 410 employees at the office in Berkeley Square and over 500 employees based at our partner customer service centre in Kilmarnock."