"Physical checks will be available tomorrow - check in with your supervisor." "Update - there will be no direct deposit for tomorrow's pay period," business manager Deborah Morse wrote in a companywide email. "It wasn't a lot, but to us it is," Edwards told the Herald.ĭritschilo reported that "a number of checks did go out on Wednesday after the situation with freelancers was mentioned at the bottom of an online column in Seven Days." But on Thursday, according to an email obtained by Seven Days, employees received word that their pay would not be delivered in the usual manner. Edwards was forced to borrow gas money from his mother.
He quoted photographer Anthony Edwards saying that he stopped working for a time after going weeks without pay because he could not afford gasoline. In a story quoting five newsroom staffers and freelancers by name, Herald staff writer Gordon Dritschilo wrote that his colleagues "bristled Thursday in the face of continued silence from management regarding the newspaper's apparent financial difficulties."Īs Seven Days reported Wednesday, the family-owned Herald and Barre-Montpelier Times Argus have not been reimbursing employees for expenditures and have not been paying some freelancers at all.Īccording to Dritschilo's story, "a number of staff payroll and expense checks bounced" in recent weeks.
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