College layoff notices coming this month - Terrace Standard

Northwest Community College will be issuing layoff notices by the end of February, a move made necessary to cut a deficit estimated to be between $1.6 million and $2 million. Speaking last week, college president Denise Henning said the layoff sequence will follow requirements set out in the collective agreements covering its unionized employees. And she said cuts will include the college’s managers. Henning added that no decisions have been made as to what programs may be cut or if the cuts include closing any of the college’s campuses across the region. Still, she warned that job reductions will be significant. “We’ve literally cut to the bone [but] we are not sustainable,” said Henning of cuts that have already been made. “Everybody has been giving until it hurts.”