Peter Reckell to be "sidelined" for a month.......

SOD has something like "Reckell Out" on a recent cover, which again is a purposeful mislead in hopes of selling more magazines.  Still, I cannot believe the reasoning behind Peter's month off.  It seems that someone on DOOL's bumbling idiots' staff realized that Peter "was in danger of going over his guarantee of episodes and they didn't want to pay him more.  Bo will leave town to visit family"
 

Now, I don't know about the rest of you, but is this ludicrous or what?  Here is a major character in a major storyline, topped off by a major triangle, purported to be the possibility of the end of an era if they decide not to reunite Bo and Hope (which I'm not saying they won't)......and they just discovered he was "IN DANGER OF GOING OVER HIS GUARANTEE OF EPISODES.......AND THEY DIDN'T WANT TO PAY HIM MORE??????"  I've never believed Corday's people to be the wisest in the industry when it came to managing this show, but this is beyond stupidity, IMO.