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For organisations that rely on ticket revenue from live events, the COVID-19 pandemic has meant an abrupt halt to operations, and the challenge of maintaining staff and facilities with no plan of when they can reopen.<\/p>\n
Organisations with large monthly expenditures, such as\u00a0the Banff Centre<\/a><\/span>\u00a0and Royal Ontario Museum are particularly under threat, as ongoing costs drive their operating margins into the red.<\/p>\n The ROM was forced to close on March 14, the beginning of one of their busiest times of the year.<\/p>\n The\u00a0Globe & Mail<\/em><\/a><\/span>\u00a0has revealed that the ROM is in talks with the Ontario Public Service Employees Union to clear the way for 323 layoffs of full and part-time employees.<\/p>\n ROM director Josh Basseches has said they are looking to spread the cutbacks across all museum operations while maintaining high-priority projects on a reduced workload and salaries. The pay cuts will amount to 80 percent of regular wages on a four-day workweek.<\/p>\n “Employees whose work can be temporarily deferred will be placed on temporary declared emergency leave to access government programs, including the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB),\u201d Basseches told the Globe<\/em>.<\/p>\n Basseches confirmed they plan to recall all staff and will reopen as soon as it is safe to do so.<\/p>\n Want more updates on classical music and opera news and reviews? Follow us\u00a0on <\/em>Facebook<\/b><\/a><\/em><\/span>, <\/em>Instagram<\/b><\/a><\/em><\/span> <\/b>or <\/em>Twitter<\/b><\/a><\/em><\/span> for all the latest.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The ROM was forced to close on March 14 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, at the beginning of one of their busiest times of the year.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":67766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[33451,35839,39],"tags":[35697,36051,36050],"yst_prominent_words":[36044,36049,36048,29864,35850,24147,36046,16680,7060,36045,28043,23440,36047,36043,19960],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/04\/ROM-covid-19.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-hCZ","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67765"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67765"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67768,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67765\/revisions\/67768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67765"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=67765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Keeping the lights on amid corona-crisis<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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