No forced furloughs for city workers

City employees will not be required to take unpaid leave to help balance the city budget under an agreement reached Thursday with a coalition of 22,000 workers.Kerry Cavanaugh in the Daily News.

In Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's budget, most workers outside public-safety agencies were required to take six days' unpaid leave to save $23million.

The Coalition of L.A. City Unions protested what it called short-term layoffs, and the group agreed to negotiate an alternative plan that still saves $23 million but doesn't require workers to lose so much pay.