MU Health Care Announcing Employee Layoffs

MU Health Care is continuing to make cuts across five hospitals and over 40 clinics to adjust for lost medical revenue and state funding.

An email was sent out yesterday announcing 32 people were laid off bringing the total number of employees out of a job to 49.

As of yesterday, no furloughs have happened, about eight hundred thousand dollars of voluntary pay reductions have been taken by MU employees and 1.6 million of pay reductions have been taken from UM System leaders, administrators and other employees according to the University.