SACRAMENTO—
Today is expected to be the final day state workers are asked to take the day off as part of the state's "Furlough Friday" mandate.The furloughs were enacted in 2009 by Governor Schwarzenegger with the hopes that furloughing state workers would help close California's $40 billion budget deficit.
Workers were expected to stay home three days per month.
The constitutionality of the furloughs had been challenged in the state's Supreme Court system. More than two dozen claims were filed by public employees challenging the furloughs.
The Governor's latest proposed budget plan does not include a revival of furloughs for state workers.
