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The Archdiocese of Louisville, Kentucky

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 has frozen the wages of its employees in order to address a budget shortfall brought on by more than 200 sex-abuse lawsuits.

"There's no inexpensive way to address those cases," says Brian Reynolds Brian Reynolds (born 1967) is a well known computer strategy game designer, formerly of MicroProse and Firaxis Games. He now runs his own game development company, Big Huge Games where he is CEO and creative director, and has been chairman of the International Game Developers , archdiocesan chancellor and chief administrator.

The archdiocese hopes to cut more than $1 million by freezing almost 250 salaries at their current level. A hiring freeze Noun 1. hiring freeze - a freeze on hiring
freeze - fixing (of prices or wages etc) at a particular level; "a freeze on hiring"
 was also imposed in January, the New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 Times reports.

While most priests in the archdiocese are paid by their parishes and are not on the archdiocesan payroll, more than 100 of them have agreed to voluntarily freeze their own salaries in solidarity with the archdiocesan employees.
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Title Annotation:sex-abuse lawsuits in Kentucky
Publication:U.S. Catholic
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1U6KY
Date:May 1, 2003
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