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‘A difficult time’: Ashurst axes 54 City secretaries following redundancy review

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Nathalie Tidman
19 July 2018
Restructuring

Ashurst has culled more than half of its secretarial staff in London as its redundancy review draws to a ‘difficult’ conclusion.

The firm confirmed on Wednesday (19 July) that 54 of its 100-strong secretarial team had been made redundant following a consultation which put 80 jobs at risk. Two secretarial roles in the Middle East have also been axed.

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