Sat, 28 Sep, 2013 02:13:51 AM FTimes-STT Report, September 28  File picture of Jyväskylä municipality hall. Photo - Lehtikuva The Jyväskylä municipality authority is going to cut about 900 jobs by the next three years for saving expenditure of EUR 50 million.
The authority disclosed the job cutting plan on Friday pointing out that the financial situation forced them to take such decision as the Jyväskylä municipality has been suffering from shortfall of tax collection during the recent years.
The termination process aimed to reduce on an average 300 employees every year till 2016 in addition to reducing the less important services.
Negotiations process in this regard will begin early October and expected to end by mid November, said sources.
“The negotiations in this regard will begin with open mind,” the vice-chairman of the Board of Directors of the municipality, Jaakko Selin told STT, adding that he was not going to evaluate the outcome of the initial negotiation.
The vice-chair also said that the Jyväskylä municipality authority is also planning to hire services, if necessary after the job cut.
Jaakko Selin said that the detail about the negotiation result could be known at the end of November.
Municipality sources said that the termination process would hamper most of the sectors including health, education, fire service, social services and food where about 70 percent of the total employees work.
Earlier on September 5, the Kouvola municipality authority undertook a programme to terminate 600 jobs by the end of next year as part of its move to save expenditure.
The mayor of the municipality, Lauri Lamminmäki published a cooperation process on Monday with the target of terminating about the 600 workers where about 6,600 employees are working now, municipality sources said.
Meanwhile, the regulatory authorities of the municipalities also hinted that more municipalities are likely to face similar situation as part of their respective expenditure cut programme.
“The decisions for cutting more jobs in other municipalities are also coming in future,” the director of the municipal employers Markku Jalonen said at that time, adding that the job cut programme is not only going at the Kouvola and Salo municipalities.
He said that other municipalities are also going to take similar programmes to save money.
“The job cut programmes will be implemented through sending the employees to retirement and reorganizing the structure,” said Jalonen.
Sources said that 27 municipalities, where a total of 50,000 employees work, are going to take the termination process.
Jalonen said that the municipalities undertook saving programmes which are still not enough everywhere.
He believed that the most challenging situation for the municipalities is structural change as like the Kouvola and Salo are going to take.
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