University of Kentucky President Eli Capilouto Friday unveiled a more promising employment picture for the months ahead at the Lexington school.
Capilouto announced that the UK budget for next year will not include reductions in workforce and the university is experiencing fewer employees being placed on administrative no-pay status than first anticipated. The UK president is directing a portion of the institution’s contingency fund to augment the budget, saving about a hundred jobs.
UK is facing a $70 million shortfall in the coming year. The university is moving forward with what’s hoped to be a temporary move of fewer than 100 positions to administrative no-pay status. That’s in addition to 200 other workers moved to that category last month. Previously UK had announced furloughs for some 1700 employees, many in healthcare. But many of those in the clinical area have returned to work.?
