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Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) is to cut 130 positions. The cutbacks are part of a new savings scheme (€8.5 million) that has been introduced due to decreased funding. Employer-employee negotiations start on September 22 and will last at least six weeks.
Update 14/1/2016:Following concluded employer-employee negotiations Lappeenranta University of Technology (Lappeenrannan teknillinen yliopisto) is to cut 120 positions instead of previously reported 130 positions. 55 jobs will be cut through direct dismissals, 51 by not renewing fixed-term contracts and the rest through retirement, job loss on voluntary basis and through reducing full-time jobs to part-time jobs.
Eurofound (2015), Lappeenranta University of Technology, Internal restructuring in Finland, factsheet number 84736, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/84736.
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