Cricket Tasmania has been forced to cut its staff after copping a multi-million dollar funding hit as a result of COVID-19.
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Employees were informed on Tuesday afternoon before chief executive Dominic Baker fronted the media to detail the 20 roles being made redundant.
"These are traumatic times ... it's been a tough day," he said.
"We are in a dire financial position. We've done some restructuring but it leaves us still very precariously perched."
The move follows a 25 per cent funding cut of $2.5 million from Cricket Australia.
This came on top of lost revenue from cancelled one-day international and AFL fixtures at Bellerive Oval as well as more than 40 function centre bookings with the organisation budgeting to lose up to $7 million over 12 months.
"Unfortunately we're having to make some tough decisions to secure the future of Cricket Tasmania," Baker added.
"It would be negligent of us to not mitigate the risks that this new landscape poses."
The cuts will be suffered across the state with some Northern and North-Western administrative roles to be amalgamated as the organisation reduces its staff from 70 to 50.
While some of the roles being made redundant are already vacant, there will be at least 10 job losses.
Baker said the organisation had undergone "an exhaustive process" over three weeks to establish where it could be more effective and efficient with the resulting redundancies being made across the $30 million business operation.
The cuts do not affect the senior playing squad whose wages are subject to a memorandum of understanding with Cricket Australia, but Baker said the players were aware of the situation.
Admitting any Big Bash League season may have to begin behind closed doors for the Hobart Hurricanes, Baker said he believed the restructure would see the business through the next two years.
"We've had some shocking conversations today and we've lost 10 really good people, people who have been great servants to this organisation," he said.
We are in a dire financial position
- Cricket Tasmania chief executive Dominic Baker
Cricket Tasmania hopes this will be the extent of required cuts adding that anything more would require drastic changes to its operation.
It plans to write to all clubs in the state to keep them informed of the developments.
"We're committed to ensuring that Cricket Tasmania remains strong and resilient," Baker said.
"We hope that the changes won't be obvious to our participants, clients and partners, and we're working hard to minimise the impacts on clubs and associations. They're feeling the impacts in their own right and we don't want to hinder their recovery.
"We are confident that the changes we have announced put us in a position that, when the time comes, we will see clubs all around the state back on the field, our own state teams continuing their campaigns and our staff back in schools and communities engaging the next generation of cricketers.
"Sport will survive and will remain ingrained in the Australian way of life. The future will see us doing more with less, but we will ensure that our association survives with it."