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| Aberdeen City Council consulting over 150 job cuts | Aberdeen City Council consulting over 150 job cuts |
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| Aberdeen City Council has begun consultations with staff and unions over 150 job cuts in 2012/13. | Aberdeen City Council has begun consultations with staff and unions over 150 job cuts in 2012/13. |
| The local authority said it needed to reduce the size of the workforce to help balance the budget next year. | The local authority said it needed to reduce the size of the workforce to help balance the budget next year. |
| The issuing of letters marked the start of a 90-day consultation period on "ways of minimising the impact". | The issuing of letters marked the start of a 90-day consultation period on "ways of minimising the impact". |
| Aberdeen City Council chief executive Valerie Watts said: "We must face up together to the realities of the very difficult economic climate." | Aberdeen City Council chief executive Valerie Watts said: "We must face up together to the realities of the very difficult economic climate." |
| The local authority said compulsory redundancies could not be ruled out. | The local authority said compulsory redundancies could not be ruled out. |
| The chief executive added: "We will be working closely with our employees and the trade unions to minimise the impact of job reductions. | The chief executive added: "We will be working closely with our employees and the trade unions to minimise the impact of job reductions. |
| "The whole of the public sector is having to confront similar challenges." | "The whole of the public sector is having to confront similar challenges." |
| The SNP's Callum McCaig, who leads Aberdeen City Council as part of a coalition with the Lib Dems, said: "City council officers are clearly prepared for every eventuality and the contingency of not ruling out compulsory redundancies was one which they felt needed to be made. | |
| "As leader of Aberdeen City Council, however, I am positive that reductions in the workforce will be made without any recourse to compulsory redundancies." | |
| The council said the plan was based on a forecast £127m reduction in income along with "extra cost pressures between now and 2015/16". | |
| Scottish Labour leader Iain Gray accused the Scottish government of betraying the people of Aberdeen by breaking its manifesto pledge of "no compulsory redundancies". | |
| He said: "The SNP promised categorically before the election there would be no compulsory redundancies in local government. | He said: "The SNP promised categorically before the election there would be no compulsory redundancies in local government. |
| "Yet now, only a few months down the line, the SNP in Aberdeen are poised to do exactly what they promised voters they would not do." | "Yet now, only a few months down the line, the SNP in Aberdeen are poised to do exactly what they promised voters they would not do." |
| A spokesman for First Minister Alex Salmond said: "Officials set out options and councillors decide - and the leader of Aberdeen City Council has reiterated that there will be no compulsory redundancies in Aberdeen under the SNP-led council." |