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Wednesday, June 06, 2012

Can I just say I love that my employer has given me a three-year notice with a retention package

as opposed to:

University of Kentucky laying off about 140 people, eliminating 164 vacant jobs
All affected employees will receive 90 days notice in lieu of severance packages.
and
Some layoffs started as early as May 29, according to Anissa Radford, an assistant dean for undergraduate affairs at the Gatton College of Business and Economics.

On that day, she and six other employees were summoned one by one to the dean's office, told about their layoffs, handed a sealed letter, given a 5-minute informational lecture and instructed to be out of the building in 10 minutes.

"We were locked out of our computers, our university email deactivated, escorted to the exit door in front of our colleagues at mid-morning with as much of our personal belongings as we could hold," Radford said in an email to the Herald-Leader. "We could not even check our office calendars to see what student appointments were scheduled for later that day and that week."

Radford said she was given no information about how her duties will be handled and was not asked to participate in any kind of transitional strategy.

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