{"id":47607,"date":"2019-05-08T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/university-of-alaska-issues-layoff-notices-to-most-hr-employees\/"},"modified":"2019-05-08T10:31:44","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T18:31:44","slug":"university-of-alaska-issues-layoff-notices-to-most-hr-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/university-of-alaska-issues-layoff-notices-to-most-hr-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Alaska issues layoff notices to most HR employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FAIRBANKS &mdash; The University of Alaska has issued layoff notices to 48 employees as part of an overhaul of its human resources department.<\/p>\n<p>UA President Jim Johnsen announced the changes, which will include downsizing, on Monday. He called the changes a redesign.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is not a merger &mdash; it is a complete redesign based on best practices in higher education, which will lead to increased efficiencies that ultimately serve you better,&rdquo; Johnsen wrote in an email to employees. &ldquo;We want to make our search for new talent more efficient and our onboarding of new employees more effective.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><ins><a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/university-of-alaska-board-votes-no-on-education-school-accreditation\/\" target=\"_blank\">[University of Alaska board votes no on education school accreditation]<\/a><\/ins><\/p>\n<p>Laid-off employees can apply for jobs in the reorganized department. Layoffs will take effect in September.<\/p>\n<p>There are 51 HR positions in the university system, said UA spokeswoman Robbie Graham. Fourteen of the people given a layoff notice are at UA Fairbanks.<\/p>\n<p>The university will see cost savings from downsizing the number of directors within human resources and accompanying efficiencies, Graham said. The impetus, however, is a desire to create efficiencies and provide better customer service, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Funding is an ongoing concern for the university. State representatives and senators discussed the operating budget in a conference committee this week. Amid uncertainty, the UA Board of Regents planned a special budget meeting Thursday in Anchorage.<\/p>\n<p>The university&rsquo;s new human resources structure will change from a traditional office to five specific areas of focus: operations, talent acquisition, transition and benefits, labor and employee engagement, and organization development.<\/p>\n<p>Some position descriptions, and the locations for people to fill them, remain unsettled, Graham said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Some will be place-based, but many positions will not be, meaning they can do their job from any location,&rdquo; Graham said by email.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>\u2022 This is an Associated Press report.<\/b><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UA is reorganizing, downsizing its human resources department. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":47608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-47607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47607"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=47607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}