COLA and Furlough ...

As of today, we received a letter from Linda Eto detailing that DPPA has agreed to mandatory furlough of one day per month in Fiscal Year 2010-11 for all employees in DPPA who work in Office of Communications and Information Technology. This will be the same as last year except that the furlough time will not be Retirement applicable as it was in 2009-10. That means that for every pay period that we take a furlough, we will only get 72, instead of 80, service credits for Retirement. This will be included in the budget document to be approved by the Board of Supervisors' for the 2010-11 year.