Furloughs Start Tomorrow

Beginning tomorrow, University of Arizona employees can start taking their required furlough days for the 2011 fiscal year. Depending on their salary, employees are required to take between zero and three unpaid days off before June 30, 2011.

President Robert N. Shelton announced in April that employee furloughs would be necessary in fiscal year 2011 due to a mandate from the Arizona Board of Regents that all three state universities reduce their general fund salary budget expenditures by 2.75 percent. That amounts to about $5.2 million for the UA.
 read more »