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Magnox has announced its plan to cut up to 1,600 jobs at the company’s 12 nuclear power sites by September 2016. The company has already shut down eleven plants and the only operational, Wylfa on Anglesey in North Wales, is due to stop generating power at the end of the year.
The company explained that the number of jobs to be cut might vary between 1,400 and 1,600 job until September 2016, including staff, agency and contract workers. A formal statement by Magnox mentioned that “these proposed reductions arise from planned step downs in the work programme at a number of sites and the implementation of a more streamlined operating model for delivering decommissioning” adding that “we will seek wherever possible for these reductions to be through voluntary means and we will endeavour to retrain staff in roles where we are currently reliant on agency resources.” In addition to that, Magnox stated that it would try to offer “alternative roles in the wider Cavendish Nuclear/Fluor business,” i.e. parent company of Magnox.
National secretary for energy for the GMB union, Gary Smith, informed that “some of these job losses have been planned for quite some time. Others will come as a shock, particularly for the workforce employed on temporary contracts.” Leader of the union having almost 600 members at Magnox pointed out that “we’re pleased that the first tranche of job losses will be on voluntary basis. But this will be a tough time for a lot of Magnox workers.” He stated that “workers in the energy sector had been told that there would be a lot more jobs created, which haven’t come to pass.”
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