Huge Change: No More Set Vacation or Sick Days at LA Times

By: Kevin Roderick | LA Observed

First, a little background. Dating to even before Tribune Company ownership of the LA Times, the cost cutters looked for a way to reduce the huge commitment on the books to pay for vacation days banked by employees. In newsrooms, like in many workplaces, staffers tend not to take a lot of vacation and thus the earned time off accrues. Well, the new ownership — Tribune Publishing — has found a way to trim this cost, while also giving managers a new hammer to hold over the heads of harried newsroom staffers.