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Senators Announce Temporary Layoffs, Employee Furloughs During COVID-19 Pandemic

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The Ottawa Senators announced Thursday that the team's "full-time workforce will be reduced" temporarily and that the hours of "some of the staff will be furloughed," per Bruce Garrioch of the Ottawa Sun:

The Senators will be instituting an unemployment plan that will "supplement employment insurance benefits" through July 3 "up to a minimum of 80 percent base salary."

This article will be updated to provide more information on this story as it becomes available.

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