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Labor organizations filed lawsuits and took other actions in an attempt to stop the furloughs of state workers. [9] On Jan. 29, 2009, a Superior Court Judge ruled that Schwarzenegger had emergency furlough power, and on February the 3rd District Court of Appeal in Sacramento said the appeal to the decision came too late and was incomplete, so judges were unable to determine if a halt to state ...
Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger forced state workers to take as many as three furlough days a month following the Great Recession, reducing their pay by about 15%. The move sparked a multi-year ...
The letter notably suspends the state’s popular leave buyback program for everyone except correctional employees represented by the California Correctional Peace Officers’ Association (whose ...
In California, the State Employee Trades Council (SETC) voted to implement a mandatory two-day-per-month furlough policy for the staff and faculty of the CSU system. [11] The furloughs, intended to prevent layoffs, began in August 2009, and ended in June 2010. The 10% cut saved about $270 million of the CSU's $564 million budget deficit. [12]
Schwarzenegger sued Controller John Chiang on August 11, aiming to force the unpaid furlough of 15,600 more state workers two days a month. [87] Even though he earlier promised to not sign any bills, Schwarzenegger signed a measure on August 26 for a statewide bullet train system that he strongly supported. [88]
California state employees are the ones feeling expendable. They are planning on using their mandated furlough day Friday to protest at theaters across the state showing the movie The Expendables.
By an executive order from the Governor in February 2009, all state workers are on a two-day-a-month furlough, or two days off without pay, equivalent to a 10% pay cut. On May 28, 2009 Governor Schwarzenegger proposed an additional 5% pay cut for all state workers (without an adjustment to the number of days worked), resulting a total pay cut ...
The State Controller’s Office typically issues “personnel letters” to communicate larger changes, and CalHR issues its own instructions to departments through “pay letters.”