by Bob Walsh
Depending
on what agency CA state civil service workers are now being told they
have to get their happy asses back to the actual work site. The unions
representing those employees are expressing their unhappiness.
CalPERS
employees are now being required to put in three days per week in the
actual office. The Dept. of Industrial Relations and some CalTrans
offices will be requiring two or three days per week in the actual
office. The State Water Project is shooting for May to get people back
in the office. The Air Resources Board and State Water Project are also
moving in that direction.
The
unions are calling these new mandates rigid, arbitrary and
unnecessary. They point out that for many state jobs telework has
turned out just fine. The employer asserts that it is hard to monitor
employee work if they are not actually there. Also that some tasks are
much better done in person, and that "office culture" interpersonal
relationships and collaboration are achieved much more fully and
effectively in an office setting.
The
unions also point out that, early on in the pandemic, God-Emperor Gavin
Newsom decreed that the state would offer permanent telework options
for many employees to cut down on office space requirements and cut down
on fuel consumption, traffic problems and other such horrible things.
The
unions are also demanding that the state increase telework stipends to
$100 per month. (I didn't know people were getting paid extra to not
come to work.)
This difference of opinion will no doubt get more unpleasant and louder as time goes by.
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