Honolulu Newspaper Unions Angry About (Lack Of) Severance Payments
All six unions representing employees at the Honolulu Star-Bulletin and the Honolulu Advertiser have filed grievances over severance pay, KITV reports.
A combined four hundred employees at both newspapers will be out of work when the papers merge in the next two weeks to become the Star-Advertiser.
But a spokesman for the Hawaii Newspaper Guild told KITV that neither the Advertiser’s former owner, Gannett Co. (GCI), or the new owner, Oahu Publications, has said whether the laid-off employees will receive severance payments.
Employees at both papers should receive one week of severance for every year of service, with five weeks minimum and 40 weeks max.
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