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.
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500 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
19 January 2011
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Dorset County Council has announced that it is to cut 500 jobs. In addition to the job cuts staff will be required to take 12 days unpaid leave, and pay for unsociable working hours will also be reduced. The local authority has announced that it would freeze vacancies and look for volunteers for redundancy but has acknowledged that some redundancies would be compulsory.
Sources
19 January 2011: BBC Website
Citation
Eurofound (2011), Dorset County Council, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 71471, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/71471.
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