Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's budget chief, Ben Barnes, sent a memo Friday morning to the commissioners of state agencies to prepare them "for the aftermath of the voting on the SEBAC agreement, taking all potential outcomes into account," Malloy's communication director, Colleen Flanagan, said.
SEBAC is the State Employees Bargaining Agent Coalition, and its 15 member unions are voting until next week on a concessions agreement that would save the state money and avert about 3,000 state employee layoffs. The outcome of the voting is to be announced by next Thursday.
Barnes, whose title is secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, says in the memo that if the unions reject the agreement -- which is slightly revised or "clarified" from the one that employees rejected in voting before SEBAC changed its rules to make ratification easier -- then layoffs will go on as planned.
If the unionized employees vote to ratify the new deal, layoffs of unionized employees will be rescinded, but layoffs of managers and other non-unionized personnel will not necessarily be reversed, Barnes said in the memo.
Here is the memo:
