Employee morale low this Christmas as public sector workers prepare for job losses

Date: 16/12/2010

Public sector bosses can expect low employee motivation this Christmas as workers prepare themselves for job cuts.

Police, council and other public sector workers will find out over the festive season if they will keep their jobs after government spending cuts force bosses to axe 100,000 staff.

Councils must give 90 days' notice for redundancies, meaning that April cuts should be announced before New Year's Day.

Brendan Barber, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, told the Guardian: "Thousands of local government workers face having their Christmas ruined by redundancy notices."

Figures from the Office for National Statistics released yesterday revealed yet more hits to morale as a further 33,000 public sector jobs were axed between August and October.

These cuts, the biggest loss of state jobs since records began, caused unemployment to reach a total of more than 2.5 million.

Government predictions forecast that 330,000 public sector jobs will be lost over the next four years.

Posted by David Farrior 

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