Staff at Dorset CC have agreed to change their job terms and conditions to help ease the county's budget problems – while Nottingham City Council has offered staff a choice of more holidays but lower pay.
The two initiatives are the latest examples of a range of different local authority approaches to find savings and ease pressures on council budgets by changing staff pay and conditions. Birmingham, Southampton and Shropshire have drawn up more controversial plans for pay cuts, which have been opposed by staff.
