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.

Five California state worker unions sue to halt furloughs

By Jon Ortiz - Updated: Friday, March 4 2011 - 12:58 pm

Against the backdrop of difficult contract talks, five state worker labor unions have asked a judge to order Gov. Jerry Brown to stop what they say are illegal three-day-per-month furloughs.

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.