Network Rail axes purchasing staff
28 August 2012
Up to 15 per cent of purchasing jobs are set to go at Network Rail under its plan to slash several billion more pounds off its operating budget by 2009.
A Network Rail spokesman told SM that the company is embarking on a major reorganisation in all departments, including procurement, and that in the next few weeks 700 middle managers will be made redundant.
“The company is reorganising, and 15 per cent of middle managers in the company will leave in a few weeks. Purchasing will have to shoulder its share,” he...