The Attack on the Public Sector

This is well reported news but olne in four employers is planning to make redundancies in the first three months of 2010, a survey has revealed.

Employers plan to cut an average of 6.2% of their workforce, according to the poll of 700 employers by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).

That is up 2.4% compared with the previous quarter, in which workforces were cut by an average of 3.8%.

This signals the start of a public sector recession that will see deep cuts in public expenditure, according to the Guardian.

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