Dennis Leone: STRS and a 37-1/2 hour work week
From Dennis Leone, June 16, 2009
Subject: The 37 1/2-hour work week at STRS
There were 2 board members who wanted the 37 ½-hour week to start 6 months earlier than the board majority desired when the change received a vote. They were Leone and Hayden. Of course, there were other OEA members on the STSR Board (led by Myers) who didn’t want the 37 ½-hour work week to start until 7-1-10, so they voted NO. It starts on 1-1-10, and it should – in the opinion of Hayden and myself – start on 7-1-09. Hayden and I both voted yes to the change starting on 1-1-10 because it was the best we could get. This is the truth.
Dennis Leone
From John Curry, June 16, 2009
Subject: I wonder if STRS could do likewise? Their change from a 37 1/2 hour work week to a 40 begins not until next year...that is not soon enough!
"the same as most of their counterparts elsewhere in state government"
Oh really!
Attorney general employees to take furlough
Posted by James Nash, Columbus Dispatch
June 15, 2009
Employees in the Ohio attorney general's office will get two weeks of unpaid time in each of the next two years as part of a budget-cutting effort, the same as most of their counterparts elsewhere in state government. Attorney General Richard Cordray agreed to the furloughs for non-union employees in the office, spokesman Ted Hart said today. The move is expected to save 3.8 percent in annual payroll costs. Hart said he doesn't know whether Cordray is seeking the same concession from the office's unionized employees, who include some secretarial staff and law-enforcement agents at the Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation. In February, Gov. Ted Strickland's administration and the Ohio Civil Service Employees Association reached an agreement calling for two-week furloughs in the executive branch of state government. The unpaid leave did not apply to separate constitutional offices like the attorney general, although the officeholders could fall in line at their own discretion. A legislative conference committee is trying to fill a $3.2 billion hole in the 2010-11 state budget, which takes effect July 1.
http://blog.dispatch.com/dailybriefing/2009/06/attorney_general_employees_to.shtml
Subject: The 37 1/2-hour work week at STRS
There were 2 board members who wanted the 37 ½-hour week to start 6 months earlier than the board majority desired when the change received a vote. They were Leone and Hayden. Of course, there were other OEA members on the STSR Board (led by Myers) who didn’t want the 37 ½-hour work week to start until 7-1-10, so they voted NO. It starts on 1-1-10, and it should – in the opinion of Hayden and myself – start on 7-1-09. Hayden and I both voted yes to the change starting on 1-1-10 because it was the best we could get. This is the truth.
Dennis Leone
From John Curry, June 16, 2009
Subject: I wonder if STRS could do likewise? Their change from a 37 1/2 hour work week to a 40 begins not until next year...that is not soon enough!
"the same as most of their counterparts elsewhere in state government"
Oh really!
Attorney general employees to take furlough
Posted by James Nash, Columbus Dispatch
June 15, 2009
Employees in the Ohio attorney general's office will get two weeks of unpaid time in each of the next two years as part of a budget-cutting effort, the same as most of their counterparts elsewhere in state government. Attorney General Richard Cordray agreed to the furloughs for non-union employees in the office, spokesman Ted Hart said today. The move is expected to save 3.8 percent in annual payroll costs. Hart said he doesn't know whether Cordray is seeking the same concession from the office's unionized employees, who include some secretarial staff and law-enforcement agents at the Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation. In February, Gov. Ted Strickland's administration and the Ohio Civil Service Employees Association reached an agreement calling for two-week furloughs in the executive branch of state government. The unpaid leave did not apply to separate constitutional offices like the attorney general, although the officeholders could fall in line at their own discretion. A legislative conference committee is trying to fill a $3.2 billion hole in the 2010-11 state budget, which takes effect July 1.
http://blog.dispatch.com/dailybriefing/2009/06/attorney_general_employees_to.shtml
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