27th March 2007, 06:38 PM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by drpeterwardle
MOLAS employ 150 core staff plus 200 field staff so with a total payroll of 350 loosing 17 jobs is not that great a proportion.
According to MoLAS, they currently employ about 160 permanent staff (including fieldies). So a 15-20 post reduction is quite significant one. Added to that is the fact that the reductions are targetted, so finds and environmental work will be visibly reduced by about a third of their numbers as I understand it. Dr. Pete are you sure you've read the Britarch message properly? It says the specialists bring 250k pa in to MoLAS - not get paid that between them. I don't think I've noticed "massive" pay increases in archaeology in the last 12 months either. What increases were these?!
I doubt there will be any changes in the proposals, and ML has a valid point about whether or not it's appropriate to make comments on an internal reorganisation. Keeping a (more) beady eye on MoLAS' standards over the next few years will be interesting for the likes of me at least, to see how this affects the work and results.