MORE ON: vacation payouts

UPDATE: Ron Yank, director of the state Department of Personnel Administration, has responded to our post (and the LA Times'), effectively arguing that vacation caps for corrections officers are practically impossible to enforce. See his full letter after the jump. Last year we told you... + read more

That big savings that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger estimated taxpayers would get by furloughing state workers - wait for it - could amount to nothing at all. At the most, it's a short-term benefit to balance the books. Jon Ortiz and Phillip Reese at the Sacramento Bee pulled together data from... + read more

Last weekend, we told you about how California state departments were allowing their employees to build up large amounts of unused time off, then cash it out when they left state service – at times flouting rules designed to limit how much time employees were allowed to accrue. ... + read more

California Watch received two datasets from the State Controller’s Office, which we used to estimate how much departments paid their employees for excess leave between 2006 and mid-2009. Go through the numbers with us. + read more

See the top 25 payouts to state employees for unpaid vacation and leave time. + read more