By Maya Miller
Say hello to California’s budget shortfall. And potentially, wave goodbye to telework stipends.
Ending the stipends is one way California Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to address a projected $38 billion shortfall. While Newsom’s finance department says no furloughs are planned, the budget does propose one small, although likely controversial, cost-saving measure involving state employees: cutting the state employee telework stipend.
“That’s something that we will bargain with the unions,” said Joe Stephenshaw, the department director California first offered the telework stipend to state workers as part of the 2021-22 budget.
The cut proposed Wednesday would save the state an estimated $51.2 million, according to the budget summary. The stipend would be eliminated at the end of the current fiscal year, on the July 2024 pay period.
Source: Sacramento Bee
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State employees and government workers are essentially service workers and shouldn’t be getting extra perks anyways, they should also make no more than the standard median of the people in the area they represent