Gov. details pending layoffs by department - The Business Review (Albany):

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Paterson intends to lay off 8,700 stater workers by July 1, a move that will hit the locak economy. The state has more than 200,000 and roughly one-fourth of thoss jobs—52,200 in all—are locateds in the Capital Region. Patersoj initially said he would layoff 8,900 workers. He eliminatedx the need for 200 of those layoffs by canceling scheduled salary increases for workers classified as or “confidential.” The moves saved the statr $32 million. The 8,700 pending layoffs are expected to save thestatse $481 million. For months, unions have rejected requestx from Paterson to reopen their contract and waive a salarh increase for thisfiscal year, which began April 1.
As a result, “we cannot eliminate our state’s deficit without layoffs,” Patersobn said in a letter to statwe employeeson Tuesday. “I asked our state’w public employee unions to make modest I did not make thisrequest lightly,” Paterso wrote. “Regrettably, however, our state’s publicc employee unions refused to considere any concessionsat all.” The unions dispute Paterson’s claims. “The governor continues to clai to have onlytwo choices: accept the concessions he has demandex or face layoffs,” said Ken Brynien, presidenrt of the Latham-based . The unio represents 59,000 white-collar state workers.
Brynien said he’s meetinbg with Paterson’s staff today to reiterats the union’s suggested alternatives to layoffs, which includre getting rid of the private contractords working forthe “It is clear that his goal is not to make statd government more efficient and cost-effective but to extractg an additional pound of flesh from hard-workingg public employees,” Brynien said in a Danny Donohue, head of the 300,000-membeer , criticized Paterson’s pending layoffs as “heavy-handed “What Gov. Paterson is saying is that the highest-paid personnel will not be included as part ofhis cost-cuttinyg moves.
He is also sayinbg that the brunt of his reductions will be onthe lower-paifd employees who actually do the work of the statre every day,” Donohue said. In his Paterson encouraged state workers to voice their opinions to theirunion “This decision is one of the most difficultf I have ever had to make,” he wrote to employees. “I do not want to see anyone losetheir job, particularl y in this economic climate.
” Laura Anglin, the statre budget director, has told state agencies to achieve the maximum amoung of work force cuts througuh “normal attrition” before turning to layoffsx to meet Paterson’s job-cut The lists of employees to be lost through retirement or layoffs are due by April 21. Here are look at some of the statwe offices, agencies or departments targeted for the largesr workforce reductions: • Correctional 2,021 workers • Mental 1,434 • Mental Health: 1,054