The council hopes to achieve the job cuts through voluntary severance and voluntary early retirement.

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The spokesman said the council hoped to achieve the job cuts through "voluntary severance and voluntary early retirement".

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This figure is in addition to the approximately 6, 500 employees impacted by the reduction in workforce and the voluntary early retirement program.

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It claimed the trust had received more than 250 applications for voluntary redundancy and early retirement.

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More than 1, 000 staff have expressed an interest in voluntary redundancy or early retirement at a Scottish council.

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Hundreds of workers took voluntary redundancy or early retirement, while thousands more were made redundant over the years.

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Some 2, 400 jobs will go, through voluntary redundancies and early retirement.

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The options include opportunities for retraining and redeployment, and voluntary redundancies as well as early retirement.

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As a general rule, councils are hoping to achieve these cuts through natural turnover, early retirement and voluntary redundancies.

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Other options to meet the budget constraints include opportunities for retraining and redeployment, and voluntary redundancies as well as early retirement.

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Thanks to European labour laws, which make it difficult to sack workers everywhere but Britain, Airbus will shed jobs through early retirement, voluntary redundancies and the like.

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