Last year, more than 130 workers were made redundant as part of a cost-cutting exercise.

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Nearly 20 posts at the University of Bath could be made redundant as part of cost-cutting measures.

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Speaking for the Scottish Conservatives, David McLetchie said the first part of the bill was "creating a tortuous system" and the second part was "largely redundant".

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She said the first part of the bill was over complex while the second part was "perhaps redundant", following the publication of the full details of the Lockerbie bomber's grounds for appeal in the Sunday Herald.

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He also hopes that some of the workers who were made redundant could be taken back on to be part of the skilled workers assembly line.

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Gustavo Gonzaga, an economist at Rio de Janeiro's Catholic University, notes that a remarkable one-third of Brazilian workers are made redundant each year, a fact he attributes in part to the labour laws themselves.

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The inquest heard one of the first tasks she had to perform was to make one part-time teacher, Angela Mercer, redundant at the end of the school year - something she found difficult and which was having a "detrimental effect upon her".

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The 3-D visual allowed him to eliminate redundant fasteners and bolts as well as structural members that could be combined into one part instead of several needing welds.

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