Gov. Pat Quinn’s office has changed the rules about how non-union state workers can take furlough days.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Gov. Pat Quinn’s office has changed the rules about how non-union state workers can take furlough days. Quinn has ordered about 2,700 non-union state workers to take 24 unpaid days off this budget year because of Illinois’ budget crisis. Under the new rules, those workers can to use vacation and personal days to fulfill their furlough requirement. The administration on Wednesday said that means workers won’t lose pay if they schedule furlough days to coincide with vacation and personal days off. Details of the new rules were in a memo sent to state agencies by Quinn’s former chief of staff Jerome Stermer, who resigned Sunday amid an ethics probe. The furlough requirement was designed to save the state about $18 million. A Quinn budget spokeswoman wouldn’t provide a revised estimate based on the new rules. Copyright 2010 The Associated Press.
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