National Museums Liverpool to cut more jobs
“Situation is bleak,” says director
National Museums Liverpool (NML) has announced it has to reduce staffing levels during 2014/15, which will lead to a net loss of around 37 posts.
Staff received letters at the end of last month asking them to consider different options including voluntary redundancy, job share, or reducing working hours.
David Fleming, NML’s director, said: "National Museums Liverpool is funded by central government. For the past four years we’ve faced unrelenting funding cuts as we try to operate world class museums.
“We have difficult decisions to make as we cope with the severe reductions to our budgets. We continue to explore different options and proposals but the reality is we have to lose valuable staff.
“We want to do everything we can to avoid compulsory redundancies. We are consulting with our unions and have written to all staff this week asking them to consider different options including voluntary redundancy.
“Once we’ve decided on the way forward we’ll meet with all our staff to go through the detail and outline next steps. The situation is bleak.”
The latest round of redundancies follows three voluntary severance schemes, which have seen NML lose one in five of its posts, a total of 93 staff, against a backdrop of grant-in-aid cuts of more than 28% in real terms since 2010.
NML has also reduced its programming across all of its venues.
Staff received letters at the end of last month asking them to consider different options including voluntary redundancy, job share, or reducing working hours.
David Fleming, NML’s director, said: "National Museums Liverpool is funded by central government. For the past four years we’ve faced unrelenting funding cuts as we try to operate world class museums.
“We have difficult decisions to make as we cope with the severe reductions to our budgets. We continue to explore different options and proposals but the reality is we have to lose valuable staff.
“We want to do everything we can to avoid compulsory redundancies. We are consulting with our unions and have written to all staff this week asking them to consider different options including voluntary redundancy.
“Once we’ve decided on the way forward we’ll meet with all our staff to go through the detail and outline next steps. The situation is bleak.”
The latest round of redundancies follows three voluntary severance schemes, which have seen NML lose one in five of its posts, a total of 93 staff, against a backdrop of grant-in-aid cuts of more than 28% in real terms since 2010.
NML has also reduced its programming across all of its venues.