Staff at Calderdale Council have been offered the chance of voluntary severance or early retirement in a bid to shed 200 posts by 2016.
All eligible staff, including centrally employed teachers, will be written to over the next fortnight as the council attempts to make savings of £40m.
A programme has been launched to help people match their skills to other posts should they want to continue at the council in a different role.
Cllr Geraldine Carter, cabinet member for use of resources, said: ‘The council faces some significant financial challenges over the next few years. We have developed these two voluntary schemes, which for the first time we are making available to the majority of staff.
‘During this period of change we also want to minimise the need for redundancies and make best use of the many strengths in our workforce. This means we will be supporting movement within the council through our Future Workforce Programme, which is helping us to retain talent, but at the same time meet our saving requirements by removing 200 posts by 2016.
'We’re expecting the programme to provide a £600,000 saving in 2015/16 and £5.5m from 2016/17.’