{"id":805984,"date":"2020-04-02T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=381269"},"modified":"2020-04-02T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T16:30:00","slug":"summit-county-lodging-companies-face-additional-layoffs-furloughs-to-cut-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/summit-county-lodging-companies-face-additional-layoffs-furloughs-to-cut-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Summit County lodging companies face additional layoffs, furloughs to cut costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"p402_hide\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/Peak8-SDN-110719-3-1024x683.jpg\" alt class=\"wp-image-374121\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/Peak8-SDN-110719-3-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/Peak8-SDN-110719-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/Peak8-SDN-110719-3-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption><strong>Breckenridge Grand Vacations has furloughed about 80% of its employees amid a countywide shutdown.<\/strong><br \/><em>Liz Copan \/ <a href=\"mailto:ecopan@summitdaily.com\">ecopan@summitdaily.com<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>BRECKENRIDGE \u2014 Following the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/summit-county-expected-to-order-widespread-business-closures\/\">Summit County order for lodging facilities to be vacated by March 19<\/a>, lodging operations are now making the tough decisions to lay off or furlough employees. On Thursday, March 26, Breckenridge Grand Vacations CEO and co-owner Mike Dudick sent out a video to staff announcing furloughs for about 80% of employees.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe kept accounting, HR, a skeleton administrative staff and limited housekeeping and engineering because we\u2019re able to perform our spring cleans now versus May,\u201d Dudick said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/many-summit-county-lodging-companies-offering-credits-rather-than-refunds-in-order-to-maintain-financial-stability-amid-shutdown\/\">Dudick said in mid-March that Breckenridge Grand Vacations would continue to pay all employees<\/a> while reevaluating on a weekly basis. Now, he is hoping furloughed employees can get by on government aid and continued health insurance coverage through the company, which Dudick and co-owner Mike Millisor will pay for.<\/p>\n<p>Dudick explained that about 75% of employees work in operations, which is running the lodging properties.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\">\n<div class=\"row sd-donation p-0\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-4 p-2\">\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/SDN-logo-white-1.png)\" class=\"p-0 mt-2 mb-2 h-75 text-center rocket-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/SDN-logo-white-1.png\" class=\"logo m-0 p-0 invisible\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/sdn-banner-paypal.jpg)\" class=\"col-xl-8 p-3 text-center rocket-lazyload\">\n<h3 class=\"d-inline mr-3\">Support Local Journalism<\/h3>\n<p><button class=\"btn d-inline\" type=\"button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/donate\/?utm_source=website&amp;utm_medium=news%20article&amp;utm_campaign=donation\">Donate<\/a><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThose jobs won\u2019t resume until resort occupancy restarts,\u201d Dudick said. \u201cFrom what I understand, most of the other hospitality lodging businesses are in the same position we are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dudick said employees who were furloughed can apply for job-attached unemployment and that he has every intention to \u201cbring them back to work as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the federal stimulus package, our hope is that the majority of employees, along with unemployment benefits, they will not suffer financially,\u201d Dudick said.&nbsp;\u201cBetween the furlough commencement and when we reopen the resorts, we hope that this will cover their lost wages during this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dudick is optimistic the recovery will be swift. Once the company can reopen and it is safe to travel, he thinks people will be eager to come to their timeshare properties, which they already paid for. He thinks it will be a good jumpstart for the local economy as it will bring visitors into town and into the local shops and restaurants.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Breckenridge Lodging Association President Toby Babich said that while some lodging facilities are laying staff off and others are using the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colorado.gov\/pacific\/cdle\/layoffassistance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">state government workshare program<\/a><i class=\"fas fa-external-link-alt\"><\/i>, there is no \u201cnorm\u201d for this situation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTypically, what we would do during a shoulder season \u2026 is we retain our staff all the way through because good staff is hard to find, and we\u2019re loyal to our staff here. So we typically won\u2019t lay people off. We just switch gears,\u201d said Babich, who also is president of Breckenridge Resort Managers. \u201c\u2026 I think a lot of folks, they\u2019re concerned about the longevity of their business because of the uncertainty of the economy, so they\u2019re preparing for the worst.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For some, that means laying off staff, particularly guest-facing employees who aren\u2019t able to work right now, said Babich, who added that Breckenridge Resort Managers has not laid off any staff.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re lucky in that we\u2019re more diversified than your typical vacation rental company,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ve pivoted our staff to doing more projects and more maintenance than we typically have them do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said he is cutting expenses in other areas, such as stopping the use of apps and phone systems that are typically used by guests. Babich said he doesn\u2019t anticipate layoffs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m committed to that until I can\u2019t be anymore,\u201d he said. \u201cHopefully, that doesn\u2019t happen, but we don\u2019t know what it\u2019s going to look like.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Looking to the future, Babich said he foresees businesses that won\u2019t be able to survive this setback, even if tourism does ramp up over the summer. But there also will be businesses that are able to carry through even if the summer doesn\u2019t bring many visitors. He said he believes people are going to continue to be in fear of traveling for quite a while and that some of the first business the county will receive likely will come from Front Range travelers who can drive to Summit County.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is going to stick with us. It may never leave. We may have some sort of imprint on the travel industry for the foreseeable future,\u201d Babich said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He also noted that the lodging industry is going to have to rethink sanitization and will need to find ways to demonstrate to guests how each lodging facility is committed to protecting the health of its guests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead of focusing on the here and now and the aches and pains of having to lay staff off and make financial cuts, we really need to look at the future of the industry,\u201d Babich said. \u201cWe need to find out how to reinvent ourselves in this current environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/summit-county-lodging-companies-face-additional-layoffs-furloughs-to-cut-costs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breckenridge Grand Vacations has furloughed about 80% of its employees amid a countywide shutdown.Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com BRECKENRIDGE \u2014 Following the Summit County order for lodging facilities to be vacated by March 19, lodging operations are now making the tough decisions to lay off or furlough employees. On Thursday, March 26, Breckenridge Grand Vacations CEO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-805984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-17 11:48:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}