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Fight over furloughs continues with new ruling

By Richard Binder

Last Friday Alameda County Superior Court Judge Steven A. Brick sided with the unions suing to stop Governor Schwarzenegger from implementing three monthly furlough days, roughly the equivalent of a 14% pay cut for nearly 150,000 state workers, that would have begun this Friday.

The governor has said that the cuts are necessary until the state approves a spending plan. In his ruling, Brick said "the balance of hardships tips in favor" of the workers, who face "great or irreparable harm."

Spokesman Aaron McLear said the Schwarzenegger administration will appeal the ruling as early as Tuesday.

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Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on August 10, 2010 (boomark / email).