Furloughs

The State Worker: Back pay for furlough days not worked raises fairness issues

By Jon Ortiz - Updated: Thursday, May 3 2012 - 8:23 am

Government policies can be like raising kids: They test your sense of what's fair.

Engineers, scientists could win back furlough pay from California

By Jon Ortiz - Published: Friday, April 13 2012 - 12:00 am

The state is on the verge of losing a lawsuit that aims to reclaim millions of dollars in wages withheld from furloughed employees.

Back pay for furloughs goes to workers in five state departments

By Jon Ortiz - Updated: Friday, February 17 2012 - 10:49 am

Hundreds of current and former state workers stand to receive millions of dollars in back wages they lost to furloughs.

Assembly Speaker John Perez backs down from Portantino staff furlough threat

By Torey Van Oot - Published: Wednesday, October 5 2011 - 12:00 am

Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez backed down Tuesday from a threat to furlough the entire staff of Democratic Assemblyman Anthony Portantino.

Prison guards union loses furlough argument in appellate court

By Jon Ortiz - Published: Wednesday, October 5 2011 - 12:00 am

San Francisco's 1st District Court of Appeal on Monday reversed a lower court's ruling on furloughs, dealing another setback to state labor unions' efforts to claw back millions of dollars in pay their members lost.

Schwarzenegger proposes tax increases, employee furloughs

By Steve Wiegand - Updated: Tuesday, September 7 2010 - 12:24 pm

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger called today for a temporary 1.5-cent increase in the state sales tax to help close an $11.2 billion deficit in the state budget, as well as new taxes on liquor and oil production.