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.
West Midlands; Shropshire and Staffordshire; Staffordshire CC
Location of affected unit(s)
Stafford
Sector
Public Administration And Defence Public Administration And Defence; Compulsory Social Security Provision Of Services To The Community As A Whole 84.22 - Defence activities
300 - 530 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
21 July 2005
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Almost 300 jobs are to go at RAF Stafford, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has announced. The storage depot at the base, where 530 people work, is to close by 2007. The MoD said 280 people were being made redundant and the other 250 staff would be offered transfers or early retirement. About 450 servicemen and women in the Air Support Unit are already being moved from RAF Stafford to RAF Wittering in Cambridgeshire. The leader of Stafford Borough Council said she would be writing to the MoD to ask what plans are in place to support families affected by redundancy.
Sources
21 July 2005: BBC News
Citation
Eurofound (2005), Royal Air Force (RAF), Closure in United Kingdom, factsheet number 61950, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/61950.
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