As part of an ongoing effort to cut costs, Topeka’s city government is requiring non-union employees to spend five days on furlough, the city’s spokeswoman said this past week. Non-union employees, of which the city has 285, must take five unpaid days off between June 13 and Sept. 18, said Molly Hadfield, the city’s media relations director. But the city is no longer seriously considering asking groups of employees to accept pay cuts, city manager Brent Trout said this past week at the monthly news conference he holds with Mayor Michelle De La Isla. “In the sense of specific salary percentage reductions, I think that that probably is not something that we’ll look at,” Trout said. “We’ve been studying the issue and looking at things and we believe that if there’s changes that need to be made, that furloughs is a better option.”
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