Eliminate Unnecessary State Employee Overtime

As the state institutes a hiring freeze, it has continued to utilize overtime by state employees to get services performed, often over the objections of state employees and their unions. In Fiscal Year 2007-08, the state spent $485.7 million on overtime costs that are not contractually obligated; these trends continued the first half of FY 2008-09. The state should severely restrict non-contractually mandated overtime by such steps as limiting it to only circumstances involving health and safety.

Learn about these other options for raising revenue (Click an item for more information):

• Bigger Better Bottle Bill
• Bulk Purchasing of Prescription Drugs
• Closing Certain Juvenile Detention Centers
• Closing Corporate Tax Loopholes
• Eliminate Private College and University Aid (aka, Bundy Aid)
• Limit Use of Private Consultants
• Reforming the Empire Zones Program
• Rockfeller Drug Law Reform

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