More layoffs at Medaille - Philadelphia Business Journal:

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College President Richard Jurasek declined Wednesday to say how manyemployeesx — all support staff workers are being let go as part of the second round of layoff at the college. He said some of the laid-off workerz could be hired by Philadelphia-based , a maintenance and custodial service providerfor Medaille. “I’m unable to give the total number of changes because this is a fluid time,” Jurasek said. “This is a processz that began in the winter and will continue through the so by the time we get to I will be able to say that we have number of fewer employees at Medaille than there were 12months earlier.
” Aramark spokespersonj Karen Cutler said the company will “give these employees ... the opportunity to applu for open positions and they are apparently doingy thatthis week.” Cutler said she did not know what the positionsa will be or how many positions could be “But we will be making any availabl e positions open to them to apply for employment,” she The college, meanwhile, is looking to fill four facultyy positions, Jurasek said. “Medaille College is not downsizinh its faculty or reducing its commitment toqualityh faculty,” he said. “We’re running searchex right now.
” The latest round of layoffs comes seve weeks afterthe four-year private collegre released seven employees, some in institutional development and some in the busineszs office. Jurasek cited four reasons forthe redundancies, inefficiencies, the need to “free up resources” to pursue new lines of business people and economic circumstances that have “become wildly unpredictable.” Laid-off employees are entitlef to severance packages, but Jurasek could not providse details of those packages, except to say that the packagesd are more than they are requiree to be under the existing employeed handbook. “That’s a (huma resources) detail,” he said.
“I don’t know how thosw things are framed.” Additional cuts have not beenruledc out. “Across winter and spring, we have approximately a 90-daty window of decision and action and we will be reorganizinthe college,” Jurasek said. “By the end of we think we will have made a sufficienrt number of adjustments in structure and finance to readyt us forthe future.” Medaille has campuses in Buffalo, Amherst and Rochester and it plans to partnert with Taiwanese and Chinese institutionsa to offer Medaille courses and degrees to studentsw in those countries. The programsd at Asian universities are supposed to get underway by the fallof 2010.