Published Date:
05 February 2010
SENIOR executives at Kirklees Council will be axed in the authority's biggest-ever jobs purge.
The council will cut the number of directors from six to four, and its heads of service from 29 to 19.
The number of managers in human resources will be slashed from 11 to five.
Kirklees plans to make 1,500 of its 11,200 non-school staff redundant over the next three years.
The purge comes as the council tries to cut its budget by 20 per cent to cope with an expected 20 per cent reduction in government funding over the next five years.
The initial round of job cuts is expected to save the council up to £2m. But chief executive Rob Vincent said he could not put a figure on what these redundancy packages might cost.
For the full story, see this week's Reporter.
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05 February 2010 12:16 PM
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