Stuff staff asked to take pay cut as ad revenue halves

Stuff staff asked to take pay cut as ad revenue halves
Victoria Young
Stuff is the latest media company to announce staff pay cuts, asking employees to take a 15 percent salary reduction over 12 weeks. The Australian-owned media group, which includes the Stuff website as well as major newspapers including The Dominion Post and the Press, said the voluntary pay cut only applied to staff earning more than $50,000 per year. A spokeswoman could not immediately confirm how many staff met that threshold and indicated chief executive Sinead Boucher was unavailable for interviews. The company’s top brass will t...

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