The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
Manufacturing Manufacture Of Basic Metal And Fabricated Metal Products Manufacture Of Basic Metals 24.46 - Processing of nuclear fuel
500 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
2 June 2005
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
British Nuclear Fuels is to cut 500 jobs at the giant Sellafield plant in Cumbria in an attempt to save on overheads as it prepares to face private sector competition. BNFL employs 10,000 people at Sellafield, where decommissioning is already under way on a range of contaminated plant. BNFL has already dismissed 100 senior managers and is targeting 500 more middle management posts in the second part of a shake-up. About 200 employees are leaving the organisation because of retirement or to work elsewhere and BNFL said it hoped to reach the planned level of 500 job cuts through natural wastage or voluntary severance. Jean McSorley, a nuclear campaigner with Greenpeace, said environmentalists were worried about the safety implications of staff reductions.
Sources
3 June 2005: The Guardian
Citation
Eurofound (2005), BNFL, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 61681, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/61681.
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