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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 state already suspended its popular leave buy-back program as part of an “expenditure freeze” to cut costs. Newsom proposes cutting California state employee telework stipends due to ...
The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office estimates in a new report that salaries and benefits for California’s roughly 250,000 state employees cost the state roughly $40 billion a year.
The Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019 (GEFTA) is a United States federal law which requires retroactive pay and leave accrual for federal employees affected by the furlough as a result of the 2018–19 federal government shutdown and any future lapses in appropriations. [1]
Federal pay rates (including military) were unaffected but the sequestration did result in involuntary unpaid time off, also known as furloughs. [4] The sequester lowered spending by a total of approximately $1.1 trillion versus pre-sequester levels over the approximately 8-year period from 2013 to 2021.
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 Controller’s Office typically issues “personnel letters” to communicate larger changes, and CalHR issues its own instructions to departments through “pay letters.”