Leeds City Council is to create almost 200 jobs in its environment and neighbourhood directorate, to help meet EU landfill targets.
The council last week announced plans to cut around 650 jobs, due to the recession and lower government grants. None of the cuts are planned for front-line services, and compulsory redundancies are ‘not anticipated’.
But it also plans to create 200 jobs, most of which will be in its environment and neighbourhood directorate. The jobs could support new measures aimed at encouraging recycling, such as a food waste trial and a possible new recycling site.
A decision will be made following a council review of its recycling service. The council blamed the job cuts on a decline in revenue from planning applications and the sale of land and buildings, which, ‘in the past’ has allowed it to invest heavily in services’.
Cllr Richard Brett, Leeds City Council joint leader, said: ‘We are having to make incredibly difficult decisions and the sad fact is that we are having to face up to the prospect of reducing our staff numbers. ‘We have done everything we can to protect our frontline services and minimise the impact of the losses on existing staff.’
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