{"id":806191,"date":"2020-04-08T12:59:13","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T18:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=381538"},"modified":"2020-04-08T12:59:13","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T18:59:13","slug":"vail-resorts-to-lay-off-2000-workers-throughout-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/vail-resorts-to-lay-off-2000-workers-throughout-colorado\/","title":{"rendered":"Vail Resorts to lay off 2,000 workers throughout Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A gondola heads up mountain at the Vail Resort April 06, 2016.
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Vail Resorts informed the state this week that it has furloughed nearly 2,000 workers effective Monday at its various ski resorts, lodges and hotels, equipment rental stores and shuttle service.<\/p>\n

The notices, 13 in total, were emailed to the Colorado Department of Labor under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, and follow earlier announcements by the company<\/a><\/i> that it would let workers go in response to widespread closures related to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe hope to end the furlough as soon as possible,\u201d wrote Jenn McHose, a senior analyst in employee relations at Vail Resorts. \u201cWe expect that the furlough will end within six months, but we do not have a specific date.\u201d<\/p>\n

If workers are brought back in six months, the timing would line up with the start of the new ski season. But the furloughs leave the fate of the summer tourist season, which has grown in importance as a source of visits, up in the air.<\/p>\n

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