An error-free state payroll? It'll be at least four more years, controller says
Before she leaves office in four years, State Controller Betty Yee wants to make progress on an elusive task in California state government: overhauling the state’s outdated and dysfunctional payroll system.
“It’s a priority of my second term,” Yee said in an interview. “I want the damn thing started.”
Five of the state’s 21 bargaining units have contracts expiring in July. Any pay or benefit changes that come with new contracts will once again test the error-prone system, instituted in the Vietnam War era when the state had 40 percent fewer employees and wasn’t engaged in collective bargaining.
Two years ago, the International Union of Operating Engineers filed a grievance with the state when its members hadn’t seen a pay increase won in contract negotiations three months earlier. State employees commonly experience trouble getting paid on time.
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