State workers furloughed

[miss cali]

Originally Posted by EscapeCalifornia

Knowing how stupid the state is, they'll furlough workers, then pay OT to others, costing us even more money.

The way I understand it to be is those facilities working on a 24/7 days a week will still get a 10% cut in salary but will be required to work their regular schedule. The difference is they will either be asked to take their two days a month off any given day or they can bank their time and use it as vacation before June 2010. In either case we will be forced to be short staff and cut 10% of our resources.

[bhcompy]

Originally Posted by lexi

"The governor wants the furloughs to remain in place even if he and lawmakers reach a budget agreement that addresses the deficit. The equivalent of a 9% pay cut, the move will save the state about $1.3 billion through June 30, 2010, officials said."

He didn't want to lay people off... wouldn't it be better to lay off some people, they could get another
job instead of slow bleeding all state employee's.

i think part of the debate is if he has the power to do that. it took a court ruling to say he had the power to furlough, and thats not even close to a layoff

[RockhetHD]

Originally Posted by momojojo

A judge just tentatively sided with Arnold on furloughing state employess 2 fridays per month. Looks like I get next Friday off. Time to tighten (again) the ol' belt.

So did they lower every ones salary by 2 days?

[Ultrarunner]

The same thing was common place in the 1930's...

The only difference were married men supporting a family were the last to go... Single Men and Women and Women with a working Husband were let go first... Priority was given status was given to Head of Household.

My Grandfather told me the boss came out to the shop floor and explained the situation... not like he and the other workers didn't know jobs coming into the shop had slowed down to a trickle...

The workers voted unanimously not to lay-off or fire anyone and asked the Boss to reduce everyone's hours untill more jobs came in... Fortunately, things picked up a little bit about 9 months later... they didn't have a new hires for many years.

Lots of the men started Vegetable Gardens with their extra time...

[miss cali]

Originally Posted by RockhetHD

So did they lower every ones salary by 2 days?

We will begin to take our two days off in February but will not see a pay cut until the end of the month.

So to answer your question, yes they did.

[miss cali]

Originally Posted by lexi

"The governor wants the furloughs to remain in place even if he and lawmakers reach a budget agreement that addresses the deficit. The equivalent of a 9% pay cut, the move will save the state about $1.3 billion through June 30, 2010, officials said."

He didn't want to lay people off... wouldn't it be better to lay off some people, they could get another
job instead of slow bleeding all state employee's.

I am a state employee. I feel blessed I am not getting laid off. I would rather give up some of my hours to avoid more people getting laid off. The less people without a job, less families in crisis, less people in unemployment and less people in welfare.

[Happy Cells]

Its about friggen time......


Take a bite of the GIGANTIC s..t sandwich that you all helped make.....

[UB50]

The last company I worked for would routinely cut workers' hours back, then they would start cutting hourly wages 10%. And if that wasn't enough, they'd cut wages another 10%.

Government workers are lucky.