When Sun News Network announced it was closing last Friday, cutting 150 full-time jobs, most of the suddenly out-of-work staff learned they would get generous severance pay. But a select few were offered much less money.
Ontario-based employees at the network were offered 16 weeks’ notice – effectively severance pay as the channel went off air early Friday morning. But nine staff from the network’s bureaus outside Ontario, in locations ranging from Vancouver to Halifax and Washington, D.C., received less generous offers of one to eight weeks’ salary, plus two weeks’ paid notice.
Ontario-based employees at the network were offered 16 weeks’ notice – effectively severance pay as the channel went off air early Friday morning. But nine staff from the network’s bureaus outside Ontario, in locations ranging from Vancouver to Halifax and Washington, D.C., received less generous offers of one to eight weeks’ salary, plus two weeks’ paid notice.