By: E&P Staff In a memo Monday to Newspaper Guild-represented employees, Cleveland Plain Dealer Editor Susan Goldberg said "there was insufficient participation" in the paper's buyout offer, and so 27 employees will be notified Tuesday they are being laid off.
The memo instructs all Employees in the Guild local 1 bargaining unit are instructed that "no matter what your shift or schedule, please be reachable by phone tomorrow (Tuesday, Dec. 2) between 7:00 am to 9:30 am."
Goldberg said she would be calling then to tell people that they have been selected for the layoff. Those who do not receive a phone call by 9:30 a.m., should report to work at their regularly scheduled start time, she added.
"There is no good way to tell anyone he or she has been laid off," Goldberg wrote. "We have chosen to do it this way because I believe it respects and protects the laid off person's privacy when receiving such traumatic news. In a world of bad options, this seems the best alternative."
Those laid off will not report to work, but will be paid for the next two weeks, in addition to the severance terms of the Guild contract, Goldberg wrote.
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