Talk:Layoffs and Hours Reduction

From the HR meeting:

Possible ways to reduce hours: seniority, merit, voluntary, eliminate overlapping job functionality hours (where there's cocoordinators)

For merit-based, we must have some fair, hard and fast criteria; in long run, best for organization as a whole, but can cause lots of interpersonal harm

Seniority: easy to determine

HR could make report to staff that kind of pre-digests the issues involved Wage reduction should be considered first, and if untenable, then move on to other options

If we sense there'll be a problem, we could nominate or call for an ad hoc committee to present the options. Staff would decide.

-- rfs 18:01, 14 Jan 2005 (PST)