40k jobs to go in town halls crisis
TOWN hall bosses will be axing thousands of jobs BEFORE Christmas as they face the grim prospect of having to make a staggering 40,000 workers redundant in the New Year.
Councils have already started laying off 15,000 employees in anticipation of savage 15 per cent budget cuts expected to be introduced next year.
The early exodus means many council workers, from admin staff to gardeners, carers and nursery helpers, will be in for a belt-tightening Christmas.
"Many of these redundancies are voluntary, as councils try to make some early cuts now to make it less of a shock next year," a Department of Communities & Local Government source revealed.
"We estimate there are 15,000 jobs being lost now but that figure could rise to 40,000 by 2011 - though as much as possible will be achieved by natural wastage.
"It proves that the public sector is not immune from the recession."
Those 40,000 job losses could soar even higher if union Unison presses ahead with an above-inflation pay rise demand.
Our source explained: "There will be no more money in the pot to pay for higher salaries."
New red tape has made the crisis even worse. Pre-school nurseries will be forced to make cutbacks under rules requiring local councils to hand money to voluntary and private nurseries.
And across the country, many councils are selling off key services to outside contractors, causing many of the redundancies.
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This article has 3 comments
TOTALLY AGREE WITH SickOfItAll, TOO MANY CHIEFS & NOT ENOUGH INDIANS
By Fed UP Bob. Posted November 8 2009 at 12:30 PM.
The jobs that should be axed include: 'Equality and
diversity' managers/administrators; smoking
cessation managers/officers; information officers;
etc. and any other town hall twits who keep
poking their noses into our lives. I bet they
won't be though.
Also, all Chief Executive and Senior Executive
salaries should be capped at £100k max. It's
a scandal that some CE's get paid more than
£200k - more that any Government minister.
By SickOfItAll. Posted November 8 2009 at 2:04 AM.
Councils add no value to my life. They have tripled the cost of council tax and the service has just got worse. Bin collection twice a month for example.
By Steve Tea. Posted November 7 2009 at 9:58 PM.