VAIL — Vail Resorts plans to lay off about 50 workers and eliminate nearly 100 vacant positions following a significant drop in advance bookings.
In an e-mail to the company’s 3,300 full-time employees, CEO Rob Katz said the layoffs and job cuts will be in all of business units.
Vail Resorts also will suspend matching employee 401(k) retirement fund contributions in 2009. Merit raises will be deferred from Oct. 1 to Jan. 1, and executives won’t get raises during the fiscal year, Katz said. The Broomfield-based company operates four resorts in Colorado — Breckenridge, Beaver Creek, Keystone and Vail — as well as Heavenly Mountain in California.
Aspen Skiing Co. does not plan layoffs, but it is leaving open about a dozen vacant positions, most of which are salaried, said David Perry, senior vice president, mountain division.
