Tampa Trib, TBO and NewsChannel 8 workers ordered to take two weeks unpaid vacation
February 18, 2009 at 3:19 pm by Wayne GarciaEmployees of Media General Inc., the Richmond, Va., parent of The Tampa Tribune, News Channel 8, TBO.com and Centro, will take a mandatory 10 days off without pay during the remainder of the year, President and Chief Executive Marshall N. Morton said in an e-mail to workers this afternoon.
“So far in 2009, economic and corporate earnings reports have been worse than expected,” Morton said in announcing the furlough plan.
“Despite aggressive sales initiatives and significant cost reductions, I regret to report that we need to build in additional expense savings to offset the revenue shortfalls our divisions anticipate.”
