Mayor Gavin Newsom is going to try a new plan that will help city reduce its $522 million budget deficit by laying off 15,000 SF city workers and re-hired them for slightly shorter hours. This will cut their paycheck by 6.25 percent.

I guess this is a deperate, last measures to collect some money for the city while allowing every city worker to keep their jobs.

What do I think?

I think this is a great idea, especially if there’s no alternative solutions. City workers will have to suffer 6.25 percent in their salaries but this is better than laying off some of the city workers permanently.

Another thing I have noticed is lack of security on San Francisco MUNI.  There’s basically no “checks” for paid people on MUNI for many, many MUNI stops.  If they can somehow figure out a way for everyone to pay, that’d certainly be millions of dollar that they are losing on.

Newsom’s controversial plan to help reduce the city’s $522 million budget deficit for the 2010-11 fiscal year would shift the majority of the city’s 26,000 workers from a 40-hour week to 37 1/2 hours, cutting their paychecks by 6.25 percent.

via sfgate

Tags: layoff, sf city workers

This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 at 6:15 pm and is filed under News.