Long-term employees to leave The West under re-structuring program
July 6 2009, 9:05 am | | 6 Comments
Just on 90 employees at The West Australian have taken up the voluntary redundancies offered by WA Newspapers. Reports put the cost of these redundancies at nearly $14 million. Around 15-18 people within the Advertising department have taken redundancies with some senior, long-term employees including Peter Stevens, Ray Turner, Benita Dowding, Peter Armstrong and Matt Rosich among them.
The redundancy program is part of a major overhaul of The West’s operations. It’s still early days in the restructuring but it is understood former Community Newspaper Group sales manager David Bignold, who joined The West earlier this year, has been elevated to head the sales department and Andrew Sculthorpe will lead the WA agency sales team.
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Wow! Havn’t done the maths but they would appear to be pretty generous handshakes?
Congratulations Scully!
Interesting selection of replacement for head of Advertising?
Well done Scully, you deserve it
Even if it was 14 000 000 was split between 90 people that is a #^*! load of cash. Are these figures correct?
Interesting that most people who get the boot would only get a fraction of these figures, given paid out leave etc.
Interesting how the West can afford takes a different view in these economic times.
Some might say – “what recession”.
Do they need any cleaners at the West?