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California Gov. Gavin Newsom unveils his revised 2024-25 state budget during a news conference in Sacramento on Friday. (Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press)
The state’s Department of Finance acknowledged an “increasing likelihood” that the state won’t bring in as much cash as it initially projected.
The unions and the Newsom administration agreed to a “personal leave program” — essentially, a furlough that cut workers’ monthly pay by 9.23% and, in exchange, gave them 16 hours of leave.
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 ...
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]
The state already suspended its popular leave buy-back program as part of an “expenditure freeze” to cut costs.
On December 3, Newsom announced a regional stay-at-home order, which divides the state into 5 regions (Northern California, Bay Area, Greater Sacramento, San Joaquin Valley, Southern California). The order will be implemented in any region if the region's ICU capacity falls 15%, and will be in effect for 3 weeks at a time.
State workers: While state workers dodged furloughs in this year’s tough budget, they didn’t emerge entirely unscathed. Newsom announced that he wants a 7.95% cut to state operations beginning ...