Newsom proposes cutting California state employee telework stipends due to budget gap
Say hello to California’s budget shortfall. And potentially, wave goodbye to telework stipends. Ending the stipends is one way California Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to address a projected $38 billion shortfall. While Newsom’s finance department says no furloughs are planned, the budget does propose one small, although likely controversial, cost-saving measure involving state employees: cutting the state employee telework stipend. “That’s something that we will bargain with the unions,” said Joe Stephenshaw, the department director. California first offered the telework stipend to state workers as...