3rd world Cartel-fornia: Court sides with Schwarzenegger on minimum wage

Monday, July 5, 2010

Court sides with Schwarzenegger on minimum wage - Yahoo! News

'SACRAMENTO, Calif. – A state appellate court on Friday sided with the Schwarzenegger administration in its attempt to temporarily impose the federal minimum wage on tens of thousands of state workers. It was not immediately clear how the ruling would affect Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's order a day earlier to pay 200,000 state workers the federal minimum of $7.25 an hour as the state wrestles with a budget crisis..

'The state controller, who cuts state paychecks, has refused to comply with the order. Friday's ruling affirms a lower-court decision in favor of the administration in a lawsuit filed two years ago after the governor's first attempt to impose the minimum wage. The latest ruling from the California 3rd District Court of Appeal in Sacramento concludes that state Controller John Chiang cannot ignore the minimum wage order from the state Department of Personnel Administration. It says "the DPA has the authority to direct the controller to defer salary payments in excess of federally mandated minimum wages when appropriations for the salaries are lacking due to a budget impasse....."

'But Chiang said in a news release that he interpreted the court ruling to mean that his office would not have to comply with the executive order if it was practically infeasible to do so. "I will move quickly to ask the courts to definitively resolve the issue of whether our current payroll system is capable of complying with the minimum wage order in a way that protects taxpayers from billions of dollars in fines and penalties," Chiang said in the statement.'

Chiang is a fr**kin liar for the State Public Unions: the states payroll system can indeed be updated fairly quickly and with minimum fuss. Chiang wants his corrupt PEU buddies in Sacto to be able to continue to steal and squeeze full pay and benefits from the CA bankrupt treasury, even if CA does not pass a budget, and even in face of the the worst economic downturn since the great depression.

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