The budget crisis caused by the coronavirus outbreak could mean pay cuts for California lawmakers and state workers.
The California budget crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic has put an end to seven straight years of pay hikes for state legislators and other elected officials and raises the possibility that they could see their salaries reduced.
including legislators, reasoning that they should share the pain of other state government employees.That could happen again when the panel holds its annual meeting Thursday to set salaries for elected officials. But the head of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Assn. said Friday that sparing legislators from the kinds of pay cuts facing most state workers, as well as many private-sector employees, would send the wrong message.“It would reinforce in the minds of most average California citizens that our elected officials are just part of the elites and not connected very tightly to the real world,” said Jon Coupal, president of the taxpayer group.
The commission cut elected officials’ pay by 18% in 2009 after the governor and Legislature furloughed state workers to balance a budget hit hard by the Great Recession.Advertisement “The state will make every attempt to reach these savings through collective bargaining,” the governor’s budget says. “However, the Administration will include a budget provision to impose reductions if the state cannot reach an agreement.”
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