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• SacBee: Governor’s deficit cure: Layoffs, furlough extensions, program cuts

  
  iePolitics.com — Authority: 152
  Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger plans to save $1.6 billion in state employee costs by extending monthly furloughs past June, laying off staff or shifting general fund workers into state jobs financed by other revenues, according to sources familiar with the governor’s forthcoming budget proposal. Schwarzenegger and ...
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• Lawsuit says furloughs delay unemployment claims

  
  The State Worker — Authority: 435
  A recently amended lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court, Acosta v. Henning , seeks to end furloughs and restore lost pay to EDD and CUIAB employees as part of a remedy for what the plaintiffs contend are violations of the state constitution and state law because the government is slow to process unemployment ...
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• CAL FIRE gets furlough exemption extension

  
  The State Worker — Authority: 435
  Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has extended the furlough exemption for CAL FIRE, which was set to expire at the end of this month. We heard the rumor last week and asked the governors office to confirm. Administration spokeswoman Rachel Arrezola said this: "California continues to face year-round fire seasons along ...
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• Report says furloughs delay federal money

  
  The State Worker — Authority: 435
  Furloughs are delaying federally-funded programs for disabled and unemployed Californians, according to a report released this afternoon by the Senate Office of Oversight and Outcomes. The report looks at the impact of furloughs on the Disability Determination Service Division of the Department of Social ...
  3 days ago

• Union: Alameda furlough lawsuit ruling any day

  
  The State Worker — Authority: 435
  The board of directors for California Attorneys, Administrative Law Judges, and Hearing Officers in State Employment issued an update of various lawsuits it is pursuing on behalf of members or that its following with great interest. Four of the six cases mentioned in the memo to members involve furlough ...
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• Let’s Leap over the Leadership Hurdle

  
  Talking Story with Rosa Say — Authority: 120
  Leading is an energy-creating “verb x30” which Alaka‘i Managers commit to: How are you leading today? ‘Leadership’ is supposed to be a good thing, right? So why is it such a formidable hurdle for us so often? Or maybe a better question is, why must we wait for their permission, or their ...
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• MediaNews memo to staff

  
  gary scott — Authority: 431
  MediaNews Group executives Dean Singleton and Jody Lodovic sent a year-end memo to staff last week. The execs touted a few achievements... Such as being less bad on the advertising side: While advertising revenue has been severely challenged, your performance has been near the top of the industry throughout 2009. ...
  4 days ago

• Blog back: Process versus power

  
  The State Worker — Authority: 435
  Blog backs review your thoughtful and provocative online comments, amplify points, answer questions, correct our mistakes and humbly accept your warranted criticism. Dec. 17 CCPOA wins Alameda lawsuit; read the court document Before folks get too excited, they need to read the decision. The judge based his ...
  4 days ago

• House Majority Position on Teacher Furloughs

  
  Hawaii House Blog — Authority: 129
  Speaker Calvin Say issued the following statement this afternoon following the Majority Caucus. It confirms the House position after the breakdown in talks earlier this week between the administration and the Hawaii State Teachers Association on the teacher furlough issue:“The House Majority Caucus reiterates its ...
  1 week ago

• In GCI vs. NYT, which wont have furloughs?

  
  Gannett Blog — Authority: 128
  [Stocks: GCI vs. NYT this year; click to enlarge. Live version]Year-to-date, Gannetts shares are up 75% -- nearly twice the gain of stock in the New York Times Co., which has climbed just 39% in the same period (see chart, above), according to current Google Finance data. That would suggest a financially more healthy ...
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• Arnold loses one, wins one on furloughs

  
  Political Blotter — Authority: 476
  Hot on the heels of yesterday’s smackdown by an Alameda County Superior Court judge over salary cuts for correctional officers in the form of unpaid furlough time that many actually can’t take off, the Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger today is crowing over his victory in another furlough-related case, this one filed ...
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• Judge upholds tentative ruling against CalPERS

  
  The State Worker — Authority: 435
  San Francisco Superior Court Judge Charlotte Woolard has ruled from the bench to uphold yesterdays tentative ruling against CalPERS in its lawsuit to exclude fund employees from Gov. Arnold Schwarzeneggers furlough order. The governors attorneys will now write the formal order for the judges signature. Until then, ...
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• From the notebook: More about furlough lawsuits

  
  The State Worker — Authority: 435
  Our story in todays Bee looks at Thursdays decision by Alameda Superior Court Judge Frank Roesch that "self-directed furloughs" for state correctional officers violate the law. As usual with these kinds of complicated stories, the dictates of time and space forced choices about what to leave in and what to take ...
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• Albuquerque Mayor: State of the citys budget

  
  What's The Word with Peter St. Cyr — Authority: 425
  Sunrise in downtown Albuquerque on the last Friday of Fall. On the job for 18 days, Albuquerques new mayor is taking a hard look at the citys $475 million annual budget. Today, Mayor Richard Berry is planning to discuss the state of the citys budget with reporters at a mid-morning news conference -- and 770KKOB ...
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• Schwarzenegger wins tentative ruling in CalPERS furlough suit

  
  The State Worker — Authority: 435
  Both the Schwarzenegger administration and CalPERS have just let us know that a San Francisco Superior Court judge has tentatively ruled in the states favor in CalPERS furlough lawsuit. The preliminary ruling says Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger "has broad authority to control the workweek of employees and ... acted ...
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• District Court workers furloughed

  
  New Mexico Independent — Authority: 611
  District Court workers employed in Bernalillo County’s 2nd Judicial District learned today that they will be forced to to take unpaid time off to make up for budget shortfalls — despite a late infusion of cash from the New Mexico Board of Finance, which approved a $68,487.55 emergency loan for the district on ...
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• Schwarzenegger reacts to Alameda ruling

  
  The State Worker — Authority: 435
  We just got off the phone with Gov. Arnold Schwarzeneggers spokeswoman, Rachel Arrezola . We had left a message with the administration this morning asking for a reaction from the governor to CCPOAs furlough lawsuit win. Heres the statement Arrezola read: "Over the last year all areas of state government have ...
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• CCPOA wins Alameda lawsuit; read the court document

  
  The State Worker — Authority: 435
  Alameda Superior Court Judge Frank Roesch has ruled in favor of California Correctional Peace Officers Association in its furlough lawsuit against Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger . The courts Register of Actions, pictured below, has just six words that tease the judges ruling: "Petition for Writ of Mandate Granted." ...
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• Job losses, furloughs top list of newspaper industry stories of 2009

  
  The Editors' Desk — Authority: 125
  Joe Strupp, senior editor of the soon-to-fold journal Editor & Publisher , says the top newspaper industry story of the year was job losses at newspapers : more than 40,000 in 2009. Strupp says the ranks of newspaper journalists now number 284,220 , down from…
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• State worker featured in CNN story

  
  The State Worker — Authority: 435
  Cindie Fonseca , a CDCR instructure and SEIU Local 1000 activist, is featured in a CNN report on Californias sagging economy. Weve featured Fonseca on this blog and in this State Worker column . Click here to see the CNN piece (after a brief advertisement). And clicking the following link will expand this ...
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