Is true that all State Employee's are right now making....

Question

Is it true that all State Employee's are right now making $6.55 an hour. I understood that they will be making this much, but is it actionlly happening right now as of today or not?

Answer 1

Well, as leisurely as they move about their job, that amount would fit.

Answer 2

No, this is not true.  Teachers and lawmakers are state employees and are making much more.

Answer 3

Some state employees could be making this much. However, in the state of GA, minimum wage is higher than that. So there is no way they are making less than minimum wage.  

Answer 4

Isn't liberal California an amazing place, The Uber rich reside there and yet, the State is in the Hole for 15 billion and a sea of oil off the coast where are the brilliant minds going? Elsewhere.

Answer 5

Yes, and some California state employees have decided to try and catch the governor  while he is alone and take him into a back room and slap the cowboy boo boo out of him until he rescinds the order.  

Answer 6

I hope so, if they make that much they are being grossly overpaid.

I hope they fire all of them !  

Would anyone even notice?

Government workers are scum !

Answer 7

In California that is what the paper reported due to a monetary budget deadlock.

Answer 8

It is supposed to be happening, but the state controller John Chiang stated that he would not abide by the order.

"It is far from clear, however, whether the governor can put the salary cuts into effect, or how long it might take. State Controller John Chiang, a Democrat who was elected to his post, suggested that the governor had overstepped his authority and said he would not cooperate. Chiang made his statements in a letter to Schwarzenegger and at a Los Angeles news conference.

Chiang disputed the governor's interpretation of a 2003 decision by the California Supreme Court that Schwarzenegger says requires most employees to be paid only the federal minimum wage during a budget impasse. And the controller insisted that the state has enough money to pay its bills through September.

Speaking to 100 union members outside the Ronald Reagan State Office Building in Los Angeles, Chiang called them "innocent victims of a political struggle."

"The state of California, the elected leadership, cannot put the important public servants of California in harm's way," he said. "We put people first, we make sure we protect their interests, and that's why I have to tell the governor, with all due respect, I am not going to comply with this order."