Restructuring events
European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
Hundreds of civil servant jobs in the North East are under threat in a Government shake-up of tax offices. Around 1,500 revenue and customs jobs will go by 2010 in an attempt to cut costs, according to the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCSU). These include 900 in Sunderland, Durham and Newcastle; 300 on Teesside, and a further 300 in rural Northumberland.
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) said consultations on the service would begin in the region in February 2007.
Tony Jarvis, regional secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union said that the job losses would lead to poorer services for tax payers and those receiving tax credits. He predicted that the closure of what is anticipated to be 200 tax offices would lead to more paperwork and the opening of more call centres.
But Paul Gray, acting chairman of HMRC, said the service needed to be made more cost-effective by co-ordinating work in fewer buildings.
Eurofound (2006), HM Revenue and Customs, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 64463, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/64463.
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