Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed an executive order today eliminating jobs for as many as 22,000 temporary state employees and reducing pay for about 200,000 state workers to the federal minimum wage of $6.55 per hour, portraying it as a stopgap measure to ensure the state can pay its bills without a state budget.
The Republican governor intends to reverse those moves once lawmakers reach a budget compromise, meaning the state would rehire temporary workers and give employees their entire back pay. The governor's order also imposes a strict hiring freeze and eliminates overtime but exempts workers in health and safety fields.
Schwarzenegger said the state's financial situation and the fact that no budget has been signed "leaves me with no easy choices."
"I have a responsibility to ensure that our state has enough money to pay its bills. This is not an action that I take lightly," he said.
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What a Nazi brownshirt
I think the decision is horrible and I wrote about it on my blog too. http://usacopywriter.wordpress.com/
Hi Shelly!
Welcome to Justice League. You are quite right. The decision by Arnold is horrible and will leave consequences in his current governorship and future world in politics. What he has done will certainly won't be forgiveable. He simply took out his frustrations on a non-balanced budget on the state employees. And we know that cut in pay with hurt the state employees as well as the business. Someone emailed me that the DMVs are cutting their hours because of Gov. Arnold's executive order. What a shame.
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