The corporation has also seen a series of budget cuts and staff redundancies in recent years.
There are allegations that lottery money is being syphoned into paying for staff redundancies.
Administrators for collapsed Scottish law firm Semple Fraser have announced 62 staff redundancies.
It includes new systems, new offices and staff redundancies.
The Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust added there would be no compulsory redundancies and staff levels would not be reduced.
The authority said key priorities included ensuring there were minimal voluntary redundancies among staff and that the social care services budget was protected, and freezing nursery fees and charges at 2012 levels.
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Staff have been warned compulsory redundancies may be unavoidable.
In recent years, few solicitors' firms have avoided redundancies or moving staff to short-time working, while others have closed or merged, and Law Society of Scotland chief executive Lorna Jack warned the hard times were continuing.
He also confirmed that potential redundancies applied to all staff at Maltby and he said the number, he believed, was "about 540".
It stressed that there would be no redundancies and that all staff would be transferred to new employers under legislation governing transfer of undertakings in the public sector.
In October, McGrigors said it would be seeking redundancies from among its Belfast staff.
Chair of governors Laura Ellis said staff were a huge asset but further redundancies could not be ruled out.
David Limb from the University and Colleges Union, who received a letter, said that the affected staff were in a pool for 13 redundancies.
It is also seeking voluntary redundancies from non-clinical staff.
The council hopes redundancies can be avoided by absorbing staff into other posts within the authority.
The cultural development agency for the north of Scotland has issued notices of redundancies to all 10 of its staff.
The University and College Union (UCU) said teaching staff would find out the details of the redundancies in the next week.
The trust, which runs Blackpool Victoria Hospital and has an annual turnover of 400 staff, said it hoped to avoid compulsory redundancies.
The new partnership will see the head office of the prince's firm close and move into Waitrose buildings but will involve no redundancies among the 15 members of staff, the firm said.
In a statement Trinity Mirror said it hoped to achieve any redundancies by voluntary means whilst other staff will be redeployed, where possible, to newly-created roles under the new publishing operation.
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It means police staff numbers - which has already been hit with redundancies - will be cut by 45 by the end of March, and a further 446 by March 2015.
Mr Smith went on to say it was "far from clear" that the government and Cosla were on the same page over the definition of maintaining staff numbers and the extent of the guarantee over compulsory redundancies.
The minister said he expected the anticipated small reduction in staff numbers could be managed "without the need for compulsory redundancies".
The authority said it hoped to avoid large-scale redundancies with new ways of delivering services, transferring staff to new organisations and with natural turnover as people leave or retire.
Journalists and technical staff at BBC Wales have begun a 12-hour strike over redundancies and claims of bullying across the corporation.
Mr Horrocks said the broadcaster would consult the unions and staff to "look for ways to reduce the number of compulsory redundancies where possible".
In a statement a spokesperson for the college said the job losses would have "a huge impact" on the region and that staff and management would "do everything in their power to minimise redundancies".
First Scotland East has started a collective consultation process with trade unions on the possibility of redundancies at the depots but has indicated it will offer affected staff posts elsewhere within the group where possible.
The redundancies also follow after Google recently announced a 10% pay increase for every member of staff.
Thanks to a flexibly skilled team we've avoided the need to make any redundancies to accommodate this shift, but every week we hear of bigger agencies who have laid off staff.
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