The latest workforce statistics for Scotland have been published. They cover the period up to December 2014.
The headline figure shows a massive 24,000 reduction in public sector staff last year. However, this is misleading as it includes a reclassification of mostly bank staff back to the private sector. The adjusted cut was 1,000 jobs; from 532,000 down to 531,000. This means a total of 62,000 jobs have been lost from the public sector in Scotland since the post-crash high point (2009 Q1), reducing public sector jobs as a proportion of the total workforce from 24% to 20.5%…
https://unison-scotland.org/wp-content/uploads/e-briefing_PublicSectorWorkforce_Mar2015.pdf