Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, March 7, 1991                   TAG: 9103070586
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-6   EDITION: EVENING 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: CHARLOTTESVILLE                                LENGTH: Short

UVA PLANS LAYOFFS, PAY CUTS

At least 21 others will take 25 percent pay cuts as their contracts are reduced from a year to nine months, administrators said Wednesday.

By fiscal 1992, up to 69 Virginia employees could lose their jobs and many more could have their contract periods reduced, university Budget Director Colette Capone said.

The layoffs are the first multiple job cuts since the Depression, Ronald Bouchard, assistant vice president for human resources, said Wednesday.

Submitting plans to reduce the school's 1991-92 academic budget, Virginia deans and department heads began notifying employees of pending layoffs this week.

The state trimmed $12.5 million from the school's $113.1 million 1991-92 general fund appropriation.

Final budgets, which the university has to send to the state, are due in early April, Bouchard said.

"We know we're going to have many more layoffs," Bouchard said. "When your budget keeps getting cut - and 80 percent of your budget goes to paychecks - you don't have much choice. By April 15 we should know better how many and where the layoffs will be."

Bouchard said his office had notified nine classified employees as of Wednesday that their positions had been eliminated.

Other departments' administrators have warned their employees of pending layoffs, but those won't be official until the budget office approves the plans, Bouchard said.