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Schwarzenegger to state workers: Work more for same pay

By Jon Ortiz
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Published: Saturday, May. 15, 2010 - 12:00 am | Page 1A


State employees would work more starting in July but their take-home pay would remain the same under a new cost-cutting policy laid out Friday in Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's revised 2010-11 budget proposal.

With California facing a $19.1 billion general fund deficit, the Republican governor wants to put employees on a "personal leave" program that would subtract a day's wages from their monthly paychecks in exchange for eight hours of floating time off.

Those reductions would come on top of others Schwarzenegger proposed in January: a 5 percent pay cut for all state workers' pay and boosting what employees kick in to their pensions by 5 percent of their earnings.

Taken together, workers would continue to see their pay reduced by about 15 percent, but would have one day off a month instead of the three they have now. ..........(more)

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