Posted by
Katy Grimes on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 11:35:47 PM
This is a true "duh" moment. The state forces employees to take 2-3 days a month off instead of cutting everyone's salary by 10%, 15% or 20%. When you require people to cease work for one of their regular workdays, the work remains. So it either needs to still be done on an urgent basis at overtime pay, or it sits and eventually gets done... at regular pay.
This is the result of unions and their strong arm tactics that do not involve actual work. Furlough days are not pay cuts that would equal any savings.
The Sac Bee has a story: (read the comments -- they are more telling than the story)