Rumor: Further Furloughs At Gannett?

An anonymous commenter at Gannett Blog (which is usually a reliable font of anonymously-sourced information) posts a memo announcing furloughs at Gannett’s US Community Publishing group.

The USCP group includes Gannett’s 80 daily newspapers but not USA TODAY.

Non-union salaried employees must take one unpaid week of vacation by March 27. Non-union hourly employees must take five days, too, though they can be spread out.

The furloughs, says USCP president Bob Dickey in the memo, were “quite frankly, an option I had hoped we could avoid.

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