“The positions being eliminated are in areas where business processes have changed significantly enough that work has been substantially reduced,” the communiqué states.
We live in a rapidly changing world where, sadly, we just don’t need as many workers to do tasks that are now done by computers. I don’t know what the solution is.
Cutting government spending makes the problem worse because it puts even more people out of work. Infrastructure spending is a temporary fix because once the bridges are repaired and the roads repaired, then what?
I’m 48. I pray I make it to retirement age gainfully employed. I fear for our future and I feel really sorry for today’s kids coming out of school with few prospects.
I share your concern but government becoming more efficients is a plus for the economy. The State Fund does not add value to the economy and should be as lean as possible. Government does not add to the GDP like a private business does. All the money saved from spending on the government or quasi government agencies goes right back into the taxpayers pocket, allowing them to spend it on things they need. The government has shown time and time again that it is far more wasteful than most private companies and consumers.
@Joe, we are a self supporting agency. Our salaries are not paid from tax dollars. We get no money from the state and the state has no right to our funds. We used to control the market but that’s no longer the case. Now staffing has to be cut for the business we have left.
$111,111 is way more than what any of these individuals make with benefits included. State Fund EEs make far less than the private industry and we took cuts to have more security in our jobs, but alas perhaps we should have gone with the quick cash….. Such is life.
I am one it’s the employees that will likely be affected and i’ll tell you right now, even after all health and dental ect, I make nowhere near 111,111. I mean to say I don’t even make half that.
I don’t want to comment on wages of the employees. I want to ask a question. My father is 88 years old with Alzheimers. He suffered a heart attack while in his 40’s that was deemed work related. State comp is responsible for paying for anything related to his heart including medications. For the last three years, since my mother passed away, I have been the one who orders his medications online, picks the medications up from the pharmacy, divides the pills into daily doses and places them into compartmentalized pill boxes and then delivers the pills to the care provider we have hired to assure he gets his prescribed medications. The medications his cardiologist has prescribe are carvedilol, lasix, amiodarone, pravastatin, Klor-Con, benazapril, and nitro-lingual spray. So my question is, why is it that every couple of months, State Comp decides to hold one back? My father was once told by a pharmacist (now deceased) that he believes State Comp holds approval for medications back in the hopes that people will get tired of arguing with them and give up. After three years of this, I must admit I think the pharmacist may have been correct. I wonder how many older people have died due to this elderly abuse? If any of you are lawyers and would consider a class action suit agaist the perpetrators of this elderly abuse please leave a comment.
It isn’t that State Comp holds medications back, a lot of it is miscommunication between the pharmacy and ESI, Express Scripts. State Fund is here to take care of the injured workers, not ignore them. questions for you? Is the Dr writing 90 day scripts with 3 refills? Are you requesting the meds at least a week before you run out to give the pharmacy, ESI and State Fund time to process?
Does State Fund have current medical report on file which is legible? Did you give the correct information to the pharmacy? Did the pharmacy request the meds through Express Scripts correctly? When they got the denial, did the pharmacist call ESI as required? Did ESI contact State Fund for additional approval? Shame on that pharmacist for spreading ill will. Shame on that pharmacist for trying to cover up for his inadequacies. State Fund does not hold meds back. Why would we? Shame on you for automatically thinking that automatically that State Fund is at fault. Maybe the family are the perpetrators and think that they can sue just to get money.
“The positions being eliminated are in areas where business processes have changed significantly enough that work has been substantially reduced,” the communiqué states.
We live in a rapidly changing world where, sadly, we just don’t need as many workers to do tasks that are now done by computers. I don’t know what the solution is.
Cutting government spending makes the problem worse because it puts even more people out of work. Infrastructure spending is a temporary fix because once the bridges are repaired and the roads repaired, then what?
I’m 48. I pray I make it to retirement age gainfully employed. I fear for our future and I feel really sorry for today’s kids coming out of school with few prospects.
I share your concern but government becoming more efficients is a plus for the economy. The State Fund does not add value to the economy and should be as lean as possible. Government does not add to the GDP like a private business does. All the money saved from spending on the government or quasi government agencies goes right back into the taxpayers pocket, allowing them to spend it on things they need. The government has shown time and time again that it is far more wasteful than most private companies and consumers.
So, on average, it costs $111,000 (salary & benefits) to employ a worker at the CA state fund? No wonder CA is in such a pickle.
@Joe, we are a self supporting agency. Our salaries are not paid from tax dollars. We get no money from the state and the state has no right to our funds. We used to control the market but that’s no longer the case. Now staffing has to be cut for the business we have left.
I was thinking the same thing until I figured it also includes other costs such as vehicles, rents, hardware, computers, payroll processing, etc….
Still pretty high though.
And when they retire, you have to add in their pension. Broke indeed.
Average cost per employee at 1,800 employees for $200 mil = $111,111. Sign me up for those benefits.
$111,111 is way more than what any of these individuals make with benefits included. State Fund EEs make far less than the private industry and we took cuts to have more security in our jobs, but alas perhaps we should have gone with the quick cash….. Such is life.
I am one it’s the employees that will likely be affected and i’ll tell you right now, even after all health and dental ect, I make nowhere near 111,111. I mean to say I don’t even make half that.
I don’t want to comment on wages of the employees. I want to ask a question. My father is 88 years old with Alzheimers. He suffered a heart attack while in his 40’s that was deemed work related. State comp is responsible for paying for anything related to his heart including medications. For the last three years, since my mother passed away, I have been the one who orders his medications online, picks the medications up from the pharmacy, divides the pills into daily doses and places them into compartmentalized pill boxes and then delivers the pills to the care provider we have hired to assure he gets his prescribed medications. The medications his cardiologist has prescribe are carvedilol, lasix, amiodarone, pravastatin, Klor-Con, benazapril, and nitro-lingual spray. So my question is, why is it that every couple of months, State Comp decides to hold one back? My father was once told by a pharmacist (now deceased) that he believes State Comp holds approval for medications back in the hopes that people will get tired of arguing with them and give up. After three years of this, I must admit I think the pharmacist may have been correct. I wonder how many older people have died due to this elderly abuse? If any of you are lawyers and would consider a class action suit agaist the perpetrators of this elderly abuse please leave a comment.
It isn’t that State Comp holds medications back, a lot of it is miscommunication between the pharmacy and ESI, Express Scripts. State Fund is here to take care of the injured workers, not ignore them. questions for you? Is the Dr writing 90 day scripts with 3 refills? Are you requesting the meds at least a week before you run out to give the pharmacy, ESI and State Fund time to process?
Does State Fund have current medical report on file which is legible? Did you give the correct information to the pharmacy? Did the pharmacy request the meds through Express Scripts correctly? When they got the denial, did the pharmacist call ESI as required? Did ESI contact State Fund for additional approval? Shame on that pharmacist for spreading ill will. Shame on that pharmacist for trying to cover up for his inadequacies. State Fund does not hold meds back. Why would we? Shame on you for automatically thinking that automatically that State Fund is at fault. Maybe the family are the perpetrators and think that they can sue just to get money.