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Orioles Lay Off, Furlough Employees Amid Financial Shortfalls

The Orioles laid off or furloughed 46 employees as a "result of the financial impact of the coronavirus pandemic." The team terminated 11 employees, three of them full-time, and furloughed 35 others, with the "temporary and permanent cuts affecting all organizational departments and employees both in Baltimore and at the team’s spring training site in Sarasota." The plan is for the "furloughed employees to be brought back Feb. 1, weeks before the club will begin 2021 spring training." The Orioles "continued to pay their full-time and part-time staff members through the season" (BALTIMORE SUN, 10/15).

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