Sacramento (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger laid off thousands of temps and part time state workers on Friday to save the state hundreds of millions of dollars during a budget stalemate that has left California without a budget one month into the fiscal year.
California's largest state employees union filed a lawsuit in Sacramento County Superior Court to block the part of the executive order forcing layoffs for 10,300 seasonal, contract and part-time workers.
At the same, employee unions filed unfair labor practice allegations against a provision temporarily cutting the pay of up to 200,000 state employees to the federal minimum wage of $6.55 an hour. Those workers would be reimbursed when a budget is approved.
Seems sad that the state lawmakers can't put their fighting aside and pass a budget and save such hardship on employees who are already scraping by.
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