By CHRIS JOHNSON, Washington Blade
Apr 30 2009, 1:52 PM |
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The Human Rights Campaign will announce a workforce reduction in the coming weeks, a spokesperson said.
Trevor Thomas, HRC’s deputy communications director, cited economic conditions as the reason for the reduction.
“Like so many other non-profits in this economy, we still have to adjust our budget to comport with economic conditions,” he said.
Thomas declined to comment on the extent of the staff reduction, or specify whether it would be accomplished through layoffs or attrition. He would not say when more details would be announced.
HRC earlier told that Blade that it ended its 2008 fiscal year with 151 full-time staffers and nine part-time staffers.
In December, HRC President Joe Solmonese told the Blade that the gay civil rights group “has been monitoring the economic climate closely for the past few months and has managed expenses accordingly.”
He said at the time that while contributions had slowed in the last quarter for 2008, HRC had no plans to lay off employees.
Solmonese has since taken a voluntary pay cut of 10 percent, lowering his total compensation from $338,400 to $302,200, according to HRC.
The Blade reported in February that HRC was seeking to renegotiate a contract with its 75 unionized employees and was proposing pay and benefit cuts for them.
Thomas said that HRC’s negotiations regarding its unionized employees with the Service Employees International Union “did not result in a solution.”
Stacey Mink, a union spokesperson, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
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