Tue, 22 Oct, 2013 02:58:55 AM Jyväskylä city to terminate 900 employees to cut expenditure FTimes-STT Report, October 22  Jyväskylä city hall. Photo Lehtikuva Different social services are feared to be facing closure, if the budget planning announced by the Jyväskylä city is accepted by the board of directors of the city.
City mayor Markku Andersson announced the budget planning with the view to cut 900 jobs over the next three years,while various services including schools, daycares and libraries would be narrowed down, if the planning is implemented.
In the budget planning,Andersson said that there was no possibility to allocate fund for hiring enough replacements in elderly and disability services.
The proposal said the first and second graders would get transportation facilities, only if the distance to the school was at least five kilometres.
The authority planned the expenditure cutsto make the city free from debt by 2016.
The proposed budget plans to save EUR 50 million expenditure through terminating 900 employees by 2016.
The authority said the financial situation forced them to take such decisions, as the Jyväskylä municipality had been suffering from shortfall of tax collection during recent years.
The termination process aims to reduce on an average 300 employees every year till 2016, as well as reducing servicesthat are considered less important.
Municipality sources said the termination process would hamper most 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.
Meanwhile, the regulatory authorities of the municipalities also hinted that more municipalities were likely to face similar situation as part of their respective expenditure cut programmes.
Sources said that 27 municipalities, where a total of 50,000 employees work, were going to face the termination process.
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