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May Revision includes proposed employee-compensation savings; LAO and unions urge bargaining and warn of labor-relations damage
Summary
The May Revision assumes $766.7 million in employee-compensation savings (about $283.3 million General Fund) by deferring or suspending scheduled general salary increases and authorizes control-section language to impose reductions if bargaining does not produce agreements. The LAO recommended rejecting open-ended control language and asked for a
The Department of Finance presented the Assembly Subcommittee 5 with a May Revision proposal that would seek $766.7 million in employee-compensation savings, including $283.3 million in General Fund savings, as part of the administration's package to close a projected budget shortfall.
Han Dong Ming of the Department of Finance said the administration will "make every attempt" to reach savings through collective bargaining but also proposed control-section language that would suspend scheduled salary increases for ratified agreements…
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