Later in December 2012, the Newspaper Guild endorsed an agreement with "Plain Dealer" management accepting the expected layoffs of 58 journalists starting in May 2013, but restoring some of the pay cut union members had accepted in 2009, setting a severance package, and minimizing future layoffs through 2019 (to "just one more modest downsizing"). The agreement also allowed work to "flow freely" between "The Plain Dealer" and cleveland.com, in particular changing the rules to allow work of non-union staff of cleveland.com to be published in "The Plain Dealer". Following the agreement, about two dozen newsroom employees departed voluntarily.