Amalgamating the control rooms resulted in the loss of half of the staff through redundancy and natural wastage. |
The firm said it hoped many of the job losses would be through voluntary redundancy. |
The workforce has been reduced by voluntary redundancy from 380 to 310, with the removal of 40 temporary workers and 30 permanently employed. |
All local authorities stressed that every effort would be made to redeploy teachers, offer them voluntary redundancy or early retirement. |
Optimism may be sustained for a while by redundancy payments, tax rebates, and by the belief that finding another job will be easy. |
Many are having great difficulties keeping their dignity in a culture where redundancy is still equated with incompetence and laziness. |