Posted on 06/23/2010 6:24:41 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger plans to cut the pay of state workers to minimum wage if a timely budget accord is not reached, according to a memo sent Wednesday from the director of the governor's Department of Personnel Administration to state agency and department heads.
The memo, written by DPA director Debbie Endsley, also warned that Schwarzenegger could order more controversial furloughs, even though the state's final scheduled furlough day for tens of thousands of employees was last Friday.
"The Governor retains the right and authority to order furloughs if necessary to address a fiscal and cash crisis," Endsley wrote.
The new fiscal year begins July 1, but lawmakers and Schwarzenegger remain far from an agreement on a spending plan. Democratic lawmakers in the Senate and Assembly still have not unified behind one budget plan, while Schwarzenegger and legislative Republicans have stood behind the governor’s May proposal to eliminate welfare and trim billions from state spending.
Schwarzenegger tried in 2008 to pay workers minimum wage when the budget talks stalemated, but state Controller John Chiang, a Democrat, refused. A lower court judge ruled against Chiang and the issue is now before the 3rd District Court of Appeals.
In the Wednesday memo, Endsley wrote that "absent a state budget, we will send instructions to the Controller to pay [minimum] wages ... for the July pay period." The paychecks for that pay period are issued at the end of July. Once a budget is signed, workers would be entitled to their full back pay.
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FoR some reason, I don’t think folks will miss aRnie here in California quite as much or in the same way as the nation misses Bush when Moonbeam or MegaBucks Whitman takes office.
.. but I could be wrong.
Government “workers”?
C’mon Governor. What the heck is that?
THe word is “sinecures”.
California has too many illegals to support!
I would love that. But I bet a judge will just restore all their pay and give them extra to boot.
Just fire up the Californication-peso machine and run to Montana.
Ah, but Obama will come along with another BAIL OUT for STATE and UNON folks. Just watch.
They actually get reimbursed when a budget deal is arrived at, they just have to work for minimum as long as no budget deal is to be had.. that can be months of late.. but employees would feeeel the most pain in the mean time.. union members get screwed from both sides.. What a country!
Ah, but Obama will come along with another BAIL OUT for STATE and UNON folks. Just watch.
Take note that there are no audits of the State agencies or State government indicating where to cut and which agencies to eliminate entirely. In CA, the Liberal Assembly is too busy worrying about plastic bags at the grocery stores, size of flat screen TVs, energy garbage light bulbs, adding more regulations to run business out of CA, and giving themselves and their staffs raises. Note that no Assemblyman has slashed their staff or cut their pay.
Meanwhile, these RAT clowns are spending their time discussing boycotting Arizona while the State of CA is over run with illegals and going down the toilet bowl. Sound familiar?
That’s only because J-Brown could make Ah-nold look good, in the same way 0bama can make Carter look good.
Not good for California!
Enough kabuki, already.
Just TERMINATE them. Get RID of them, and their jobs.
The rest of this stuff is all theater.
Yup.
By the time it makes it’s way thru court, he’ll be long gone.. and none too soon at that too.. :-)
>>none too soon
Yup. Then we get moonbeam or Schwarzenwhitman. :-(
Wah! RINO! Wah!
Lets not a say we did...
Montana is a hellish ice box 6 months out of the year.
Arnold is all talk.
The girly man will never do anything serious.
Pulling animals from california shelters is a constant for neighboring states. People are dumping them in droves,
and cutting the wages of the animal control staff is just going to make it worse for the animals being abandoned.
Cut them, and then cut them again....Tough times call for tough measures....Like the private sector, they'll have to deal with it.
Lets not a say we did... Montana is a hellish ice box 6 months out of the year.
Thanks for that... Now if we can only get a REALLY hellish icebox of a winter, we might just be able to get rid of the Californians that are already here.
Welcome to Montana. Now, go home.
:D
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