The New Lawyer reported yesterday that…
MALLESONS Stephen Jaques has today announced a voluntary redundancy program.
In a letter to all Mallesons staff today, chief executive partner, Robert Milliner, said “this step is not taken lightly”, and that it follows a board meeting earlier this month to review the firm’s forecast for the next 24 months.
“During this meeting, there were detailed discussions about the available options to best address the matching of workflow trends with the firm?s capability and capacity and a decision was taken to offer voluntary redundancies in August 2009.”
The program is open across all offices, Milliner said, and to permanent employees only. The firm expects to accept voluntary redundancies for about 100 members of staff, or about 5 per cent of the workforce.
The firm is not disclosing which positions are ultimately accepted for a voluntary redundancy, and Milliner noted that not everyone who puts their hand up for redundancy will have it accepted.
Full article at? http://www.thenewlawyer.com.au/article/mallesons-announces-redundancies/492357.aspx
