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Job cuts, budgets and challenges in the public sector: the 2012 survey

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Source: IRS Employment Review

Date: 12-03-2012

Publisher: IRS

Job cuts, budgets and challenges in the public sector: the 2012 survey

TOPICS:

recruitment	labour market and economy
HR policy and strategy	business challenges
employee relations	employee relations challenges and tools
termination of employment	redundancy

SECTORS:
public services

AUTHOR: Noelle Murphy

The public sector is in the middle of its third year of cost cutting and job losses. We find out how these challenges are being met by HR.

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Cutting the wage bill through redundancies
Voluntary versus compulsory redundancies
Redundancy compensation
Redundancies forecast
Reasons for cutting wage bills
Chart 1: Reasons for cutting wage bills in 2011
Outsourcing to reduce the wage bill
Chart 2: Use of outsourcing to reduce wage bills in 2011
Increase in use of shared services
Areas where shared services were introduced
Chart 3: Use of shared services to reduce wage bills in 2011
Services no longer provided
Other cost-cutting measures taken in 2011
Chart 4: Other measures taken to reduce wage bills in 2011
Results of cost-cutting measures
Challenges for 2012
Chart 5: Steps expected to cut wage bills in 2012
Our research
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