As part of the restructuring of the Museum of London's Archaeology Service (Molas), five staff will leave by this autumn.
One ceramics building material specialist and four managers are leaving the service under voluntary redundancy agreements.
Taryn Nixon, managing director of Molas, which is a commercial service, said the restructure was to "ensure that Molas continued as a leading archaeology unit". She said a downturn in specialist work areas in science and environmental areas had been anticipated.
But the service now has an "incredibly strong workload for years ahead".
Museum of London (MoL) executives originally proposed eight-to11 job cuts out of 13 finds specialists, and five-to-six redundancies from the 15-strong management team. That would have meant 18 per cent of Molas employees being placed at risk.
But, according to Antony Francis, a Molas archaeologist and the chairman of the MoL branch of Prospect, union activity made a significant difference to the number of redundancies. "The campaign had a big effect because hundreds of people - including senior figures in the heritage world - called for the job cuts to be stopped. This forced the MoL to think again," he said.
Nixon said the museum was able to retain all finds specialists following the restructure. She said the internal restructuring had forged a new way of working for the Molas management team.
Felicity Heywood
One ceramics building material specialist and four managers are leaving the service under voluntary redundancy agreements.
Taryn Nixon, managing director of Molas, which is a commercial service, said the restructure was to "ensure that Molas continued as a leading archaeology unit". She said a downturn in specialist work areas in science and environmental areas had been anticipated.
But the service now has an "incredibly strong workload for years ahead".
Museum of London (MoL) executives originally proposed eight-to11 job cuts out of 13 finds specialists, and five-to-six redundancies from the 15-strong management team. That would have meant 18 per cent of Molas employees being placed at risk.
But, according to Antony Francis, a Molas archaeologist and the chairman of the MoL branch of Prospect, union activity made a significant difference to the number of redundancies. "The campaign had a big effect because hundreds of people - including senior figures in the heritage world - called for the job cuts to be stopped. This forced the MoL to think again," he said.
Nixon said the museum was able to retain all finds specialists following the restructure. She said the internal restructuring had forged a new way of working for the Molas management team.
Felicity Heywood
