[Vision2020] UI to Furlough Employees

[Donovan Arnold]

Furloughs are much better than axing jobs because it doesn't increase unemployment lines and taxpayer paid government handouts. BUT, I think they should cut operation costs significantly before biting into paychecks. They should also cut more days from top officials because cutting one extra day for them saves four people on the lower end of the pay scale because those are the workers that run day to day operations.
 
For example, have the manager skip half a day on Monday and half a day on Friday, so you can reduce the hourly pay to four days instead of five. 
 
 
Your Friend,
 
Donovan Arnold

--- On Tue, 3/2/10, lfalen <lfalen at turbonet.com> wrote:


From: lfalen <lfalen at turbonet.com>
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] UI to Furlough Employees
To: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>, "Moscow Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Date: Tuesday, March 2, 2010, 8:18 PM


They have to do something. My wife is one of those that will be furloughed. At least administrators will be hit the heaviest. Some of them should be furloughed permanently.
Roger
-----Original message-----
From: "Tom Hansen" thansen at moscow.com
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:57:55 -0800
To: "Moscow Vision 2020" vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] UI to Furlough Employees

> What makes me feel that nothing good comes from this?
> 
> Courtesy of the Lewiston tribune.
> 
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> 
> UI to furlough employees
> 
> MOSCOW -- The University of Idaho this morning announced a plan of tiered
> furloughs for 2,600 employees in a short-term budget cutting measure.
> 
> The minimum furlough will be four hours for an employee making $22,500 per
> year. Employees making more money will be required to take more unpaid
> leave, topping out at five days for those making more than $200,000 per
> year.
> 
> The UI is the first public four-year institution in Idaho to use furloughs
> to address the ongoing state budget crisis. By doing so, university
> President Duane Nellis is exercising strengthened powers granted by the
> State Board of Education two weeks ago.
> 
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> 
> Seeya round town, Moscow,
> 
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
> 
> "The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change
> and the Realist adjusts his sails."
> 
> - Unknown
> 
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