Summary
AS many as 600 jobs could go at a local authority as it struggles to balance its books for the forthcoming financial year.
In the latest example of how the squeeze on public finances is impacting upon local government, Aberdeen City Council said it needs to cut 5per cent off its budget to save GBP16.9m, claiming that the whole public sector faced "very difficult choices" and would have to "find imaginative ways of facing up to the same situation".See the full content of this document
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600 Face Axe in Council Jobs Purge
It has already begun 90-day consultations with staff and trade unions on reducing the size of its workforce and "on ways of ...
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