This is Lancashire: Blackburn with Darwen council bosses slammed for re-hiring former staff
A spokeswoman for the TaxPayers’ Alliance said the council should have done its utmost to find other roles for the employees before giving them severance packages.
She said: “What the council has done might be within the rules, but it does not seem to be in the spirit of getting the best out of taxpayers’ money.
“A lot of councils have to find millions of savings and that will mean some redundancies, but it is clearly not good value for taxpayers’ money to make people redundant and hire them back in other roles.”
