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Next up for the @PECG-sponsored telework-rights bill #AB1729: a CA Senate committee. While we wait to learn when & where it will be heard, check out this video of the Assembly floor debate & vote last week tinyurl.com/4af2dxs4 HT @CalMatters #RethinkRTO#CAStateWorkers
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Assembly floor vote on #AB1729 could happen next week! While Appropriations held hundreds of bills for cost concerns, this one passed 11-0. The auditor says flexible telework saves CA up to $225M a year. auditor.ca.gov/reports/2024-… #RethinkRTO #CAStateWorkers
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#AB1729 needs 54 Assembly votes to pass because it contains an urgency clause for immediate effect. That's a higher bar — and a sign its bipartisan authors are serious about protecting state telework. Floor vote expected the week of May 25. #RethinkRTO #CAStateWorkers
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#AB1729 cleared Assembly Appropriations last week. Dem author @alex_lee & GOP co-author @JoshHooverCA led a bipartisan 11-0 vote in Assembly Appropriations. Hundreds of bills heldfor cost concerns. Not this one. Floor vote expected the wk of 5/26. #RethinkRTO #CAStateWorkers
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The Reagan State Building needs a $660M remodel—but telework makes it a divestment candidate. State Auditor says sell: on the busiest day, 80% of workstations were empty. RTO would force the state to keep it. #AB1729 heads to Appropriations. auditor.ca.gov/reports/2024-…
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Remote job postings at federal agencies attract 366 applicants on average. Non-remote? Just 51. California can't afford to lose that edge for hard-to-fill roles. #AB1729 protects it. On to Assembly Appropriations. #RethinkRTO #CAStateWorkers gao.gov/products/gao-25-1073….
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Hybrid work cut resignations by 33% according to a Stanford study. For a state competing to keep skilled engineers and professionals, that's not a perk — it's a workforce strategy. #AB1729 moves to Assembly Appropriations. #RethinkRTO #CAStateWorkers siepr.stanford.edu/news/hybr….
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In 2022 and 2023, teleworking state employees drove 1.08 billion fewer miles, spent 27M fewer hours commuting, and saved 44M gallons of gas, per @CalifDGS shuttered dashboard. That's what's at stake with #AB1729 in Assembly Appropriations. #RethinkRTO pecg.org/wp-content/uploads/…
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Before the 2-day RTO mandate, California had already relinquished 767,000 sq ft of office space under telework — saving $22.5M a year. #AB1729 would keep us on track. Next up: Assembly Appropriations. #RethinkRTO #CAStateWorkers sacbee.com/news/politics-gov…
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The state's own auditor says telework can save California taxpayers up to $225 million a year. #AB1729 would protect those savings. It's heading to Assembly Appropriations — and the mathis on our side. #RethinkRTO #CAStateWorkers auditor.ca.gov/reports/2024-….
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When auditors asked the Governor's Office for the research behind its RTO orders, they got two articles — and no California-specific data. DGS survey data went unused. #AB1729 heads to committee tomorrow! Good policy demands #RethinkRTO. auditor.ca.gov/reports/2024-….
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Attendance isn't the same as performance. Service quality and timely results — not desk time — should measure success. That was California's own standard when it launched statewide telework. #AB1729 gets its first committee hearing April 8. #RethinkRTO ebudget.ca.gov/2020-21/pdf/E…
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State audits show telework keeps productivity stable or better. Agencies that later pushed RTO? They praised remote work in internal surveys just weeks before. #AB1729 gets its first committee hearing April 8. The data supports #RethinkRTO. sacbee.com/news/politics-gov…
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The state was already closing offices and saving money under telework. Gov. Newsom's 4-day RTO mandate reverses that progress — and forfeits up to $225M a year in taxpayer savings. #AB1729 heads to its first .committee hearing April 8. #RethinkRTO auditor.ca.gov/reports/2024-…
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1st hearing for #AB1729 the #CAStateWorkers telework bill is on 4/8. @PECG's Wasim Ali makes the climate case in @CalMatters: 393K metric tons of CO2 kept out of the air, saved 44M gal. of gas & slashed 1B commute miles...then RTO. 🔗bit.ly/3Nvqv2g
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The measure would safeguard flexible telework for thousands of engineers, architects and related professionals, as well as every state employee who can work remotely- Ferdinand de la Cruz PECG Pres.
Read more at: sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/art…
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Not your average lobbyists. State workers petition lawmakers to protect telework - @sacbee_news. Read the story and check out the video in the link 🔗
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