New York Governor Proposes Mandatory Employee Furloughs

The call for a furlough Commercial Inflatable come as the Paterson administr ha fail to get union to lower workforc spending. Paterson offici have threaten layoff but have yet to carri them out.

The administr said the furlough order would be submit as a separ measur with the weekli packag of emergency-spend bill that the Legislatur ha pass to financ state oper sinc the budget deadlin wa miss on April 1. Lawmak and the governor remain split on at least $3 billion worth of revenu measur and cuts.

Sheldon Silver,Th speaker of the Assembly. said that if the governor want to reduc costs, he ha the author to do it in other wai than mandat furloughs.

the Civil Servic Employe Associat and the Public Employe FederationThe governor said he expect that hi plan would also face legal challeng by the largest public employe unions..

Civil Servic Employe Associat Presid Danni Donohue: He put out a one-word statement respond to the furlough idea: "Nuts."

exclud emerg and health-car personnel. Other than rais the specter of bottleneck at Depart of Motor Vehicl offices,The furlough would cover about 70% of the state' agenc workforce. administr offici were vagu on what kind of impact the plan could have on state services.

A dministr offici said the four-dai workweek would save the state an estim $30 million a week. That monei would replac about $250 million in unspecifi workforc concess that the administr anticip receiv thi year but fail to secur from the major public employe unions.