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Judge rejects Schwarzenegger minimum wage request

A judge on Friday declined to force the state controller to comply with an order by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to pay state workers minimum wage while the state remains without a budget.

Senh: This is getting ugly. California lawmakers couldn't balance the budget, so they make state workers pay? I would rather have these guys not get paid until the budget's balanced. It's their goddamn job.

 

California State Workers Brace For Minimum Wage

California State Workers Brace For Minimum Wage

As the Terminator, Arnold Schwarzenegger was the technology of the future, feared by humans. As governor, he's being foiled by the technology of the past.

For the second time in two years, Schwarzenegger has ordered most state workers' pay cut to the federal minimum wage because lawmakers missed their deadline to fix the state's $19 billion budget deficit. The Legislature's failure to act has left the state without a spending plan as the new fiscal year begins.

 

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