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.
What a mess.
99.99% of Legacy Media reporters fail to understand that every single penny the Government spends, at the end of the day, comes from a private citizens bank account.
Every dollar spent by (unproductive) Govt is one less dollar spent in the (productive) private sector.