Sentences with phrase «aea staff»

As well as the AEA staff, JET has about 150 Commission workers and 350 contractors.

Not exact matches

The AEA has always maintained that its JET staff are paid fairly compared with its other workers.

In 1992, an inquiry requested by the MEPs proposed two solutions: either give all workers at JET a Commission contract, or convince the AEA to give its staff more money while at the same time persuading the Commission to give preferential treatment to British staff applying for jobs on other European projects.

But PA said that Pounds Sterling 32 million could be saved by cancelling the transfer, closing the laboratory and transferring some staff to AEA Technology.

Last month, the DTI announced that it would close Warren Spring and transfer most staff to AEA Technology, another government laboratory at Harwell, in Oxfordshire.

However, PA also pointed out that transferring Warren Spring staff to AEA Technology would reduce competition for government contracts in environmental research.

More importantly, says John Billard of the IPMS, the union that represents staff at JET, the AEA workers have no guarantee of jobs after JET closes.

But in May a secret review of the move commissioned by the department concluded that it would be cheaper to close the laboratory, sack half the staff and transfer the rest to AEA Technology, the government laboratory at Harwell, Oxfordshire.