Journalists at the BBC are taking part in a second 24-hour strike over compulsory redundancies.
Members of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) began their strike at 00:01 BST. From Tuesday, members will also observe a work to rule.The NUJ says the BBC is "unwilling to engage in finding reasonable resolutions" for those forced to leave and who face compulsory redundancy.
The BBC says it is unable to agree to demands for no compulsory redundancies.
Monday's strike follows similar action on 15 July when licence fee payers experienced some disruption to output.
A BBC spokesman said at the time that the disruption had been less than expected.
Lucy Adams, the BBC's business operations director, said in an e-mail to staff that the corporation had been in daily contact with the NUJ last week "in an attempt to resolve the issues they have raised".
As well as being unable to agree to no compulsory redundancies, she said management were "unable to agree to NUJ members who are facing redundancy being treated differently to other BBC staff".
"Following the cuts in central government grants to the World Service and BBC Monitoring we have had to close 387 posts, meaning that, regrettably, there are nearly 100 staff who as a result are facing compulsory redundancy.
"We have been working with all these affected staff to ensure that they have opportunities for redeployment and retraining but we cannot and will not give preferential treatment to individuals depending on their union status."
The NUJ accuses the BBC of "wasting thousands of pounds making skilled and experienced people compulsorily redundant instead of redeploying staff".
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