Baird says cuts won’t mean massive layoffs
Posted May 4, 2011 04:51:51 AM.
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John Baird had some reassuring words for civil servants. The re-elected senior cabinet minister told the Citizen he is pretty confident the cuts can be found without massive layoffs.
With the long-forgotten spring budget coming back, which included deficit reduction of four billion, Baird feels the Government can achieve savings in the civil service through attrition.
There are 80,000 public servants scheduled to retire within the next five years.
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