Sacbee — State employees would work longer shifts but fewer of them under the revised budget plan proposed by Gov. Jerry Brown this morning, saving the government more than $800 million.
Brown's budget envisions putting a four-day, 38-hour workweek for "the majority of state employees." If broken into four equal shifts, that translates into four 9.5-hour workdays and a reduction of hours and pay of eight hours over four weeks.
Brown's plan doesn't spare prisons or state hospitals: "The Administration will pursue commensurate reductions in work hours and pay for employees of entities that operate 24 hour a day, 7 days a week when implementation of the four-day workweek is not feasible."
The plan also cuts the state's operating costs by cutting energy usage at state-occupied buildings.
In sum, the workweek reconfiguration plan would save an estimated $839.1 million in fiscal 2012-13. Of that, $401.7 million would be savings for the general fund, which Brown says is confronting a $16 billion deficit.
The budget plan also anticipates more savings through cutting outside contracts, particularly in information technology services, eliminating "non essential" hiring of retired annuitants and cutting 11,000 state positions on top of the 15,000 eliminated in the 2011-12 budget.
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There are no money rabbits to be pulled out of the governor's top hat. Arnold thought there was and tried at the expense of state workers, now Jerry's wants that experience as well. The common sense approach is out of the question as usual. However, the pockets of the California state employees are ripe to be fleeced again after a few months of full pay. What a horrible joke the state of California's politicians and union leaders are playing on all the civil servants of California.
Please tell us what happened to the savings of furloughs, PLPs, and AB-109, that has taken so many through state government inflicted personal financial hell? Those fly by the seat of the pants decisions, will only be accompanied with more twistedly perverted flights of political fantasy. Decisions that really don't produce anything but more misery for state workers. When will the madness end? When California's politicians stop spending more than they take in, which seems to be never!
it will end the day that the Jarvice tax elimination for corporations does. I bet none of you know that because of that initiative passed way back when, that corporations like Chevron, pay 70s property taxes on all the property they own, and make tons of money on pumping out oil and that is just one corporation. If they paid what we the people paid we would be fine fiscally,,,,
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