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Posted on 06/27/2026 2:14:59 AM PDT by Libloather
Gov. Gavin Newsom is barreling ahead with forcing California state workers back to the office, flatly rejecting calls to soften a return-to-work mandate that unions warn could trigger a “mass exodus” of employees.
Starting July 1, roughly 100,000 state workers will be required to report to the office or the field four days a week, leaving just one day for telework under Newsom’s long-delayed executive order.
Despite mounting backlash from organized labor and state employees, the governor made it clear there will be no retreat.
Asked directly whether he’d consider easing the four-day in-office requirement, Newsom didn’t blink.
“No chance.”
He doubled down moments later, on a call with KCRA saying, “It’s ridiculous, four days a week.”
The mandate is set to kick in next month as part of a broader implementation timeline tied to a previously delayed executive order.
The policy push comes as Newsom and Democratic lawmakers just finalized California’s budget, though the governor emphasized the return-to-office directive is not part of those negotiations.
The showdown is already escalating with SEIU Local 1000, the state’s largest employee union, which has warned the mandate could spark a wave of departures if enforced.
Union leadership argues workers have successfully kept state government running under hybrid schedules since the pandemic and see no justification for the stricter requirement.
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Or totally non existent. The fraudulent use of phantom employees in California government for people to pad their incomes is epidemic in California.
if people actually have to physically show up for work, it makes it much harder to keep. the phantom employee scam rolling because there is no physical person to show up for work.
It's kind of like the New Orleans police Department where 750 police officers were given leave to vacation in Las Vegas in the days after Hurricanes Katrina and then never came back to New Orleans.. A lot of "people " who never existed in the first place are going to quit their California government jobs in protest of the return to work laws.
I didn’t consider ghost employees.
Who do those peons think they are? Only the governor can perpetrate scams, not the lowly serfs. And if anyone knows a scam when he sees one, it’s Newscum.
“The Otherwise Unemployable”
The Federal Government Employment Welfare system is alive and kicking. Loaded with the otherwise unemployable.
You mean to tell me these loafers have been working from home since Covid? Bwaaaaahahahahahahahaaaaaaahahahahahahhaaaa!!!!
California is the absolute worst state in the country....
Oooooh. Mr. Tough Guy.
The SEIU is basically Communist front group and an adjunct of the Democrat Party masquerading as a labor union .
They control the hiring of government employees because they control the HR departments so it's easy for them manufacturer fake jobs and fill them with phantom workers.
In California, the illegal alien fake identity industry is working hand in hand with the SEIU to produce fraudulent identity documents for illegals indistinguishable from official state documents because corrupt SEIU workers in the state government are colluding with the fraudulent ID industry and issuing official California state ID docs to illegals.
California is barred by California law from investigating the legitimacy of the residents ID because millions of people California are illegal aliens.
Once the illegals have their fake IDs they are able to sign up for California state welfare, often under multiple false identities. The SEIU quickly figured out that if they could easily issue fake IDs to illegal aliens, they could just as easily take advantage of California's de facto encouragement of identity fraud to issue false identity paper to themselves, their friends , family members and political allies.
Once they have fake identity papers they can get hired for no show jobs as phantom employees. They can also create another fake ID to get signed up for welfare as well.
The California political class is in collusion with the SEIU to look the other way because they are benefiting from the fraud.
This phantom worker fraud is enabled by the covid era remote work and the number of phantom workers has exploded since covid.
In fact, this system is so endemic and riddled. with fraud that the whole Gavin Newsome “Back to Work” law is probably motivated more by a desire to clean up the employee rolls and as a pretext to purge phantom workers off the payrolls in anticipation of Federal Dept of Justice investigations in California fraud and public corruption.
Otherwise it's hard to explain the sudden mass resignations of tens of thousands. California state and local government employees
He’s saying this only because he’s running for the Presidency. One of countless things to come.
Most “workers” are probably out of state or elsewhere.
“that unions warn could trigger a “mass exodus” of employees”
Yeah right, Kalifornia high paying, for life employment. Not going to happen, UNFORTUNATELY.
To quote Deep Thought..."And...who will that inconvenience?"
They claim there’s been zero drop in productivity since they started “working” from home - I take that to mean that, no matter where they sit, there is zero productivity.
I would rarely agree with anything from Newsom, but am wondering why office employee don’t consider work AT the office as normal. I always thought it was normal for most any worker at any job. Maybe it’s the travel, which could be bad in L.A., but they should hire those within a reasonable distance if that’s the case. Didn’t these people have to originally show up to be hired?
They need them in the office so they can monitor their DEI adherence.
Have you driven LA during rush hour. There is no reasonable distance.
Actually that rumor of 750 New Orleans police going on vacation to Vegas has been debunked. It was 40 police and first responders who had worked around the clock for days. Trip was donated by Vegas businesses.
California must not have any department auditing whatsoever. Owing to virtually everyone getting paid electronically not by physical check, the ability to conduct a payoff is limited. In ancient times before automated payments, an auditor would show up on a random payday and control the checks requiring photo identification. He wouldn’t be surprised to learn that a few checks went unclaimed because Sally’s or Henry’s check usually was carried home by someone else.
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