Sacramento bee: the governator has decreed all state workers will be paid minimum wage $7.25/hour except doctors and lawyers who are exempt from federal minimum wage they will work for free.taser1 Schwarzenegger orders minimum wage for state workers <style type="text/css"> #scsharelink { background: url(http://media.sacbee.com/static/sacconnect/images/share-icon.png) no-repeat left center; padding-left: 20px; } </style> Share By Jon Ortiz jortiz@sacbee.com Published: Thursday, Jul. 1, 2010 - 4:37 pm Last Modified: Thursday, Jul. 1, 2010 - 5:01 pm <!-- CLOSE: #story_header --> The Schwarzenegger administration today ordered State Controller John Chiang to reduce state worker pay for July to the federal minimum allowed by law -- $7.25 an hour for most state workers. The instructions from the Department of Personnel Administration exclude roughly 37,000 state workers in six bargaining units that recently came to tentative labor agreements with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Some employees, such as doctors and lawyers, would get no pay because federal exempts them from any minimum wage requirement. Managers, supervisors and others who don't get paid for working more than 40 hours per week would receive $455 per week until a budget deal got done. Schwarzenegger has invoked a 2003 state Supreme Court decision as grounds for the move. That ruling, White v. Davis, held that without a budget that appropriates money for state payroll, employee wages can be withheld to the federal minimum. That condition exists today, which is the start of the 2010-11 fiscal year and the state is without a budget. The back pay would be paid once a budget is enacted. The administration issued similar instructions to Chiang during a budget impasse in 2008. The controller refused to comply over concerns that doing so would violate federal law. He also asserted that the state's decades-old computerized payroll system couldn't handle the complexities of changing the pay for 240,000 state workers affected by the governor's instruction. Calls to the Controller's office seeking comment were not immediately returned. © Copyright The Sacramento Bee. All rights reserved. <style type="text/css"> #scsharelinkb { background: url(http://media.sacbee.com/static/sacconnect/images/share-icon.png) no-repeat left center; padding-left: 20px; } </style> Share <script type="text/javascript" src="http://d.yimg.com/ds/badge2.js" showbranding="0" badgetype="text">the_sacrament682:/2010/07/01/2864148/schwarzenegger-orders-minimum.html</script>Buzz up! <li class="nyxComment @Nyx.AlternateClass@"> comment are interesting<li class="nyxComment @Nyx.AlternateClass@"> <li class="nyxComment @Nyx.AlternateClass@"> <li class="nyxComment @Nyx.AlternateClass@"> how long untill the gunfire begins??? AND EVERY STATE EMPLOYED DOCTOR LOADS UP THE BEEMER AND HEADS ANYWHERE THAT AINT CALI???<li class="nyxComment @Nyx.AlternateClass@"> <li class="nyxComment @Nyx.AlternateClass@"> Schwarzenegger orders minimum wage for state workers - Sacramento Politics - California Politics | Sacramento Bee
Ol' Schwartzie is about to find MT offices and major increases in unemployment bennie applications. Hm. About that budget, Ahnolt ---
Not that it makes any difference to him but will his paycheck be for about $800 in July? Any bets on whether or not he's exempt? Byte
IMO all gov employees should get minimum wage. They get enough vacation days already. I bet min wage would be $50/hr if that were the case.
