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1) immediately, including approval by a vice-president or executive leadership team member to recruit for any vacant position except for existing non-management positions in clinical areas;
I mean, sure, okay, as a temporary measure this can sometimes make sense, but at some point (particularly if you're restructuring) you're going to have to lift this because it's not sustainable for the long term.

2) an end to discretionary spending on travel, non-clinical equipment, office supplies and the like;
No more office supplies, that'll make things more efficient! No more boots on the ground to travel to a hospital and see what really happens, you can manage by spreadsheet can't you?

3) no more spending by areas that have not spent their full budget for the year;
I honestly don't see what this is try to accomplish? Don't spend your budget and then you can't spend more money? So you want people to...spend their whole budget rather than find efficiencies?

4) and to 10-per-cent cut to overtime and agency staffing.
Even though our demand is way up you gotta cut staffing and overtime....not doing anything on the demand side so I guess we're going to have empty shifts instead? Awesome!

AHS non-union staff has been on a pay freeze for the better part of a decade, you'd have to be crazy or super passionate about healthcare to work there.
I interviewed there ~4 years ago got an offer 40k lower than the one I ended up signing elsewhere and it came with the promise of an indefinite salary freeze. Not very easy to get talent when all you can promise them is below market pay, being the political scapegoat, constant restructuring, and bureaucracy.

Edit: I lied, after 8 years of salary freeze, non union workers get a 3.25% increase this year.