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Article: UW coaches will take furloughs, pay cut
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- October 12, 2009
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MADISON - University of Wisconsin-Madison head coaches will be
subject to state employee furlough days and seven of them have
already taken at least one day off.
Gov. Jim Doyle ordered the furloughs earlier this year for nearly
all of Wisconsin's 69,000 state employees to help balance the
budget. Today is the first statewide furlough day for most state
agencies, although the university is open and operating on a
different schedule for furloughs.
Eight furlough days must be taken during the 12-month period that
started July 1, and another eight must be taken the following year.
The furloughs apply to employees who are funded with state tax
dollars as well as those in the athletic department ...