(Chicago, IL) — A Cook County judge says the state may not pay state workers their full salaries so long as there’s no budget in place. In response to an inquiry from Attorney General Lisa Madigan, Judge Diane Joan Larsen ruled that only workers covered by a federal law can be paid, and only the federal minimum wage, but state Comptroller Leslie Munger says it’s a practical impossibility to determine which workers those are, so the state will pay no one.
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David Stewart/css IL) IN)
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