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Dear State Board of Directors:

As anticipated, the Administration has "urged" the State Controller to reduce our pay to federal minimum wage. This was done via the attached pay letter to J. Chiang from D. Endsley of the Department of Personnel Administration. Please take the time to read the cover letter, and note that the letter "urges" the Controller to take the steps necessary to implement minimum wage. Also, note that the pay letter "excludes" from the minimum wage those six units that have "tentative" deals with this Administration.

Unfortunately for those six units, the "law" this Governor is so intent on following - DOES NOT ALLOW FOR EXEMPTIONS TO MINIMUM WAGE for units that have "tentative" deals. Also, please share with your members, the attached Controller's response to DPA's "urging".
In the interim, we need to urge our members to write their respective management regarding the hardship(s) that such order is and or will have on their ability to report for work. How can we report to work if we can't afford to buy gas for the car we can't make the payment on? Where is our Secretary on this issue? We have not seen or heard from anyone in CDCR management decrying this treatment of their employees. Why is that?

Also, as this was written, the Appellate Court just issued a ruling on the minimum wage case Gilb v. Chiang. You can read the ruling athttp://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/opinions/documents/C061947.PDF or you can locate the link on our website. The decision is 45 pages long and on first blush appears to affirm that minimum wage can be ordered absent a budget. However, it also appears, at first blush, to prohibit not doing so to select groups of employees while doing so to others regardless of a "tentative" deal.
We will post more information as it develops.