Layoff notices are expected to go out to more than a thousand Connecticut state employees next week if no union concession deal is reached. Governor Malloy's budget proposal calls for 700-million-dollars in union givebacks.
If no agreement is reached, Malloy plans to lay off more than four-thousand state employees, which would save the state 400-million-dollars a year.
Lawmakers and the governor are working to close a structural deficit of around two-billion-dollars in the upcoming fiscal year.
According to the latest figures, the state is almost 5 point 3 billion dollars short.