EmploymentSpectator » unpaid furloughs http://www.employmentspectator.com Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:51:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Massachusetts Governor Announces Another Round of Job Cuts http://www.employmentspectator.com/2009/10/massachusetts-governor-announces-another-round-of-job-cuts/ http://www.employmentspectator.com/2009/10/massachusetts-governor-announces-another-round-of-job-cuts/#comments Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:18:39 +0000 joshua http://www.employmentspectator.com/?p=13943 massachusettsflag_160x120Governor Deval Patrick of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is cutting another 1000 state jobs and says an additional 1000 jobs may be in jeopardy if the unions won’t make some concessions. Massachusetts is struggling to close a $600 million gap in their budget this year.

Patrick wants the unions to agree to nine unpaid furlough days for its workers, which would save the state $35 million. This concession would save the second set of 1000 jobs, at least for now.

Further spending cuts are still needed, but Governor Patrick insists that no cuts will be made to education or to state aid provided to local communities.

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