Oh, the humanity and all the passengers screaming around here.
I suspect many/most are hourly, so it would be a 25% cut. Then again it is California, and it is Brown, so you are probably right.
What the locals lose from lack of government worker spending one day a week, the taxpayers and small businesses gain many times over. So this article is false in that it is a net gain to cut state worker pay. It is always a net gain to the state tax payers and small businesses to cut state worker payroll.
Other than that, Brown is not reducing their work hours by 20%. It is not stated in this article, but Brown wants to go to a 4-day workweek of 9.5 hour working days. So no, it would not cut their work hours by 20%, but only by 5%, while screwing up things like day care arrangements, children after school, after school soccer and other sports, and car pools. There are a lot of parents who have arrangements to pick up children after work and shuttle them around to Karate and soccer and other activities. By requiring them to have to state at work 1.5 hours later than normal is going to play havoc with their family routines.
It is stupid idea. The one-Friday-per-month furloughs worked fine, but Brown being the idiot he is, always has to reinvent the wheel and pave its path with moonbeams.
Updated at 4:55 p.m. ET:
California Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday asked state employees to work a four-day, 38-hour week as part of a package of massive spending cuts needed to help the state close an unexpected $15.7 billion budget deficit.
Oh no!!!!.....Oh no!!!!!!....then taxpayers would have more money to spend so that more private sector employees could be hired and then how could the Democrats steal money?