45 redundancies are in the offing at newly merged Shakespeare Martineau.
Despite the puff ("Spirit, talent and enterprise are what the market can expect from Shakespeare Martineau"), staff at the firm have been far from gruntled since last June's merger. Earlier this month RollOnFriday reported that staff from legacy Martineau were being paid 15% more than their colleagues who had been at Shakespeares. They now have bigger problems on their hands. A spokeswoman said that the firm needed to reduce the size of some of its teams and "45 jobs" had been identified as surplus to requirements across the London and Birmingham offices.
The consultation started yesterday. The spokeswoman told RollOnFriday that both lawyers and non fee-earners would be hit, and "the majority of the roles sit within our Business Support teams and in our Birmingham office". She added that the need to reduce the size of some teams was a "natural feature of any merger". Which was a largely accurate, if not entirely sensitive, way of explaining why dozens of staff will be spending Christmas on the dole.
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Despite the puff ("Spirit, talent and enterprise are what the market can expect from Shakespeare Martineau"), staff at the firm have been far from gruntled since last June's merger. Earlier this month RollOnFriday reported that staff from legacy Martineau were being paid 15% more than their colleagues who had been at Shakespeares. They now have bigger problems on their hands. A spokeswoman said that the firm needed to reduce the size of some of its teams and "45 jobs" had been identified as surplus to requirements across the London and Birmingham offices.
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The consultation started yesterday. The spokeswoman told RollOnFriday that both lawyers and non fee-earners would be hit, and "the majority of the roles sit within our Business Support teams and in our Birmingham office". She added that the need to reduce the size of some teams was a "natural feature of any merger". Which was a largely accurate, if not entirely sensitive, way of explaining why dozens of staff will be spending Christmas on the dole.
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Anything but that has happened.
These redundancy plans disregard any spirit, talent or enterprise of its employees.
These cuts have been made in the dark targeting random areas left right and centre.
The funniest part is these redundancies come right after some of our colleagues have had pay rises!
It seems a kick in the teeth to say we can't afford some people be we are going to give pay rises to hundreds of your colleagues!
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Second there are lots of duplications in roles and we are a business after all.
Targets are now consistent throughout the board so now it is fair.
Only suprise is that the redundancies have not been announced in other offices where to be frank further cost savings could be made as there are way to many people in certain departments it pulling their weight and too many office service staff twiddling their thumbs
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Guess I should be grateful as my role is not at risk - yet
At least the firm's marketing budget hasn't had to take a hit.....
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