Schwarzenegger Orders Minimum Wage for State Workers

The Sacramento Bee ^ | July 1, 2010 | Jon Ortiz

[GiovannaNicoletta]

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.

[Paperdoll]

All bureaucrats should be on minimym wage!

[TaMoDee]

The reduction to min wage should stay there for them, permanently.

[karnage]

Eliminate as many bureaucratic jobs as possible.

[dalebert]

how about grounding airforce one to save some money.

[Slump Tester]

Whoa - talk about a turd in the punchbowl!

[Grim]

Excellent!

[wally_bert]

Great idea and hope it goes nationwide!

[cranked]

lulz......someone remind them of how much in debt they are.....

[bikerman]

WOW! that should go over like a lead balloon.

[The Duke]

how about grounding airforce one to save some money.

And golfcart one as well.

[aimhigh]

It will be interesting to see what the California DOJ attorneys do.

[Enterprise]

That’s going to HURT! Lawyers working for the State of California make pretty good money. Now, they are making ZERO. I wonder how many of them will walk off the job if they get ZERO on their paycheck in August.

[stboz]

Betcha lawyers are excluded from this little soirre.

[Enterprise]

This is from the article:

Some employees, such as doctors and lawyers, would get no pay because federal exempts them from any minimum wage requirement.