Wake Forest Baptist rolls out furloughs for employees, temporary pay cuts for management

[TexasTowelie]

Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center’s top executive has informed employees about furloughs for leadership and administrative employees that could begin next week or in early May.

Wake Forest Baptist has 19,220 employees overall. It is the largest employer in Forsyth County, with 14,271 workers as of October 2018. It owns and manages Davie, High Point and Wilkes medical centers.

Dr. Julie Ann Freischlag, the center’s chief executive and medical school dean, laid out the center’s plans in an employee memo Wednesday. Wake Forest Baptist confirmed Freischlag’s memo Thursday.

Freischlag said the furlough period would last 16 weeks. It is not clear how many furlough days or weeks employees will be required to take.

Read more: https://www.journalnow.com/business/wake-forest-baptist-rolls-out-furloughs-for-employees-temporary-pay-cuts-for-management/article_c03b2910-a8ec-5f9c-be54-4d4913445f4b.html
(Winston-Salem Journal)

[mwooldri]

1. Not the only medical group to do this.

Fewer people are going to the doctor and fewer routine and elective procedures are being done. Wifey has been encouraged to take a furlough week or two, using saved up vacation pay.