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The Professional Engineers in California Government represents 15,000 state-employed engineers and related professionals.

#CAStateEngineers

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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 https://t.co/rlZ87s5SHW HT @CalMatters #RethinkRTO#CAStateWorkers

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#AB1729 has passed the Assembly Floor Vote and now will move on to Senate !

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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. https://t.co/p3viUNJYMT #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. https://t.co/c2QWqwMDmG

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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 https://t.co/4kCDZcATOp.

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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 https://t.co/U9b1PUWsJi.

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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 https://t.co/bpMJRvPhVp

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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 https://t.co/fcP0itdRRB

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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 https://t.co/p3viUNJYMT.

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🚨AB1729 ADVANCES🚨

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🚨REMINDER🚨
STREAM LIVE @ 9AM : https://t.co/BnU8zkAZt6

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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. https://t.co/NJYECqT058.

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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 https://t.co/zWRWe0idfd

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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. https://t.co/MYx06z7MvZ

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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 https://t.co/p3viUNJYMT

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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. 🔗https://t.co/gr1QSmD0Io
#RethinkRTO

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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: https://t.co/6lxmk4HWYw

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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 🔗
https://t.co/Px2B3TD7aV