Might be wise to take 10 while the weather’s still inviting

Even those members of the SAES faculty with nine-month appointments and those who spent their summer in another hemisphere are probably aware that one of the emergency measures enacted to balance the state budget included a salary reduction of one-half of 1 percent in state employees paychecks in June and July. Don’t wait until January of 2010 to get full details of what was actually a mandatory furlough. In exchange for the pay reductions in June and July, state employees get 10 hours of furlough time, and they must make arrangements with their supervisors for taking these 10 hours of furlough time before Dec. 31.