A further 350 jobs are to go at Derby City Council, taking the total number of cuts to 1,000 in three years.
The cuts have been announced as council bosses said the authority needed to reduce its budget by £63m by 2015.
City council leader Paul Bayliss said it was also looking at other ways to make savings, including service cuts.
Council staff have been offered voluntary redundancy to leave by the end of the year, but after that they face compulsory redundancy.
Mr Bayliss, of the Labour group, said the council had been given no other option but to make reductions to jobs and services.
He said: “We are having to make these cuts because the government has reduced our funding.
“We have tried to make cuts in areas that will do the least harm to the city of Derby and the services that people expect the city to deliver and feel we have come up with a reasonable proposal…
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