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Judge calls Schwarzenegger's Furlough Order Illegal
An Alameda Superior Court judge has ordered the Schwarzenegger administration to cease and desist its practice of furloughing thousands of state workers who are members of the Service Employees International Union, Local 1000, offering the powerful union a huge victory as it enters 2010.In a ruling handed down late Thursday, Justice Frank Roesch said the governor's reliance on provisions of the state's Emergency Services Act to order mandatory furloughs was flawed and illegal, saying "the emergency necessitating them was the failure of the Legislature to pass the budgets" yet the administration continued the furloughs even after the budgets were passed.
Roesch also said that the furlough plan has "interfered with the objectives of agencies" whose activities were funded with special funds, not general fund revenues, including the processing of Social Security disability reviews.
The governor's controversial executive order used his emergency powers to impose twice-monthly furloughs on more than 200,000 state workers in February when the general fund was sloshing in $40 billion of red ink. He added a third "Furlough Friday" in July to cover a portion of what was then a $24 billion budget hole.
The administration had said the policy was expected to save $2.2 billion in payroll costs this fiscal year.
http://www.sacbee.com/topstories/story/2431148.html
Judge calls Schwarzenegger's Furlough Order Illegal
An Alameda Superior Court judge has ordered the Schwarzenegger administration to cease and desist its practice of furloughing thousands of state workers who are members of the Service Employees International Union, Local 1000, offering the powerful union a huge victory as it enters 2010.In a ruling handed down late Thursday, Justice Frank Roesch said the governor's reliance on provisions of the state's Emergency Services Act to order mandatory furloughs was flawed and illegal, saying "the emergency necessitating them was the failure of the Legislature to pass the budgets" yet the administration continued the furloughs even after the budgets were passed.
Roesch also said that the furlough plan has "interfered with the objectives of agencies" whose activities were funded with special funds, not general fund revenues, including the processing of Social Security disability reviews.
The governor's controversial executive order used his emergency powers to impose twice-monthly furloughs on more than 200,000 state workers in February when the general fund was sloshing in $40 billion of red ink. He added a third "Furlough Friday" in July to cover a portion of what was then a $24 billion budget hole.
The administration had said the policy was expected to save $2.2 billion in payroll costs this fiscal year.
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