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.
Public Administration And Defence Public Administration And Defence; Compulsory Social Security Administration Of The State And The Economic And Social Policy Of The Community 84.1 - Administration of the State and the economic and social policy of the community
200 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
22 February 2012
Employment effect (start)
22 February 2012
Foreseen end date
21 February 2013
Description
Rotherham Council has announced plans to cut 200 jobs within the next year in a bid to save £20.4m. The Council aims at implementing the cuts through voluntary redundancies. Additionally, salary increases will be frozen.
It is reported that the council has already cut 1,000 positions in the last two years. According to the council chief executive council spending was £8,000 per person before the governments' Comprehensive Spending Review in 2010 and has gone down to £800 per person.
Sources
22 February 2012: BBC News
Citation
Eurofound (2012), Rotherham Council, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 73164, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/73164.
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