The Day Announces One-Week Employee Furloughs

 

NEW LONDON, CT (January 30, 2009) – Employees at The Day will take a week off without pay this year to help the newspaper save money, workers learned today. The publisher said that a one-week hiatus by employees will save the company about $300,000.

Gary Farrugia, who last year gave up the title of The Day's editor to concentrate on being publisher and overseeing advertising sales, also said that holiday and management bonuses will stay frozen for 2009, but that annual merit raises will start again after July. Merit raises were suspended in 2008.

About 300 full-time and part-time workers are employed by the paper. When Farrugia announced the furloughs he told employees that a wide selection of options had been considered before deciding that having workers take a week off without pay would be the least harmful way to save jobs and money.

The newspaper has seen growth in readership of its Web site, now the second-largest newspaper Web site in Connecticut, Farrugia said, even as print advertising sales continue to decline and the country's recession deepens.

NPPA vice president Sean D. Elliot is the newspaper's chief photographer.

 

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