More Furloughs for Gannett Newspaper Employees
Gannett Co., the country’s largest newspaper publishing company, is ordering employees at 81 newspapers to take a week off without pay. This marks the third year in a row that Gannett workers have been subject to furloughs. The move is designed to avoid further layoffs. The company has already eliminated over one thousand jobs since 2007.
“This was, quite frankly, an option I had hoped we could avoid,” Bob Dickey, head of the company’s U.S. Community Publishing division, said in a
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