Week 9: Information about the adjustment process
Since 21 January, the Faculty of Humanities (HUM), the Faculty of Engineering (TEK) and the Central Administration have worked intensively to find possible financial adjustments in the form of savings and improvement of the expected operating results to meet the budgets of the main areas in the coming years.
Until 12 February, the main areas attempted to find adjustments that could avert and reduce the number of redundancies. During this process, employees, union representatives and managers have shown a great deal of commitment, which has led to many improvement proposals and agreements on voluntary resignations.
Status of HUM and TEK
However, the various measures in the form of voluntary severance agreements and improvement proposals have not been sufficient to achieve the necessary adjustments at the Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Engineering. Staff reductions are therefore necessary in addition to the voluntary agreements that a number of employees have already entered into. The number of employees nominated for dismissal amounts to 13 at HUM and 11 at TEK.
On Tuesday 2 March, the affected employees at HUM and TEK will be contacted and invited to a meeting about their conditions of employment.
The total staff reductions at the faculties will, of course, be noticeable, and it will therefore be necessary to a certain extent to opt out of tasks, reduce the service and reorganise workflows.
Status of the Central Administration
During the remediation phase, the Central Administration has identified financial adjustments of DKK 25 million from 2022 onwards. The adjustments have been found through a large number of voluntary redundancies, the cancellation of vacancies and savings on operating costs.
On the basis of the remediation phase, no employees in the Central Administration will be nominated for dismissal in the week starting on 1 March.
Until 2022, the Central Administration will discontinue 26 positions among the technical and administrative staff. It will therefore be necessary to opt out of tasks, reduce the level of service and reorganise tasks/resources across the areas in the Central Administration.
These consequences will no doubt be felt by the other five main areas, as the Central Administration provides services and handles tasks for the entire university. These consequences will be explained in more detail on 26 March.