The cuts were initially planned to go out on Dec. 24, which Gardine called \u201cinsulting,\u201d and which Palacios said sows chaos among workers when they should be spending time with family during the holidays. <\/p>\n
In what appeared to be a response to pressure from union members, the health system said late Monday it would delay the notices until Jan. 6. <\/p>\n
Palacios said the layoff notices will send workers into \u201cdamage-control\u201d mode. <\/p>\n
\u201cHow am I going to support my family, how am I going to survive? Can I get another job if this is happening with our health care system? Is this happening throughout the state of California?\u201d she said, reflecting her colleagues\u2019 concerns. \u201cThey\u2019re stressed out, they\u2019re worried, they\u2019re afraid of what the what ifs.\u201d <\/p>\n
The health system said the 296 people it needs to lay off will be from \u201cdepartments and disciplines across the system including management, support and administrative services, and clinical care,\u201d and that those that are affected will have access to job search assistance and resume writing guidance. Some will receive severance packages. <\/p>\n
\u201cAHS leadership continues to pursue multiple strategies to restore funding and strengthen sustainability,\u201d the agency\u2019s statement said. \u201cWe are working in partnership with federal, state and county leaders to hopefully mitigate these adverse conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gardine said before resorting to layoffs, executives at AHS should take pay cuts, and explore other options, such as ending leases at pricey office buildings in downtown and the Jack London areas of Oakland. The system should also consider hiring more permanent staff instead of relying on traveling contractors. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe resources are there, the state of California is an incredibly wealthy state. So, the fact that we are cutting essential services for our most vulnerable communities is completely outrageous,\u201d Gardine said. \u201cI think we have a huge fight ahead and that I think there\u2019s a lot of us who are ready to start fighting.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The cuts were initially planned to go out on Dec. 24, which Gardine called \u201cinsulting,\u201d and which Palacios…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":{"0":"post-368705","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health-care","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-health-care","10":"tag-healthcare"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}