Mayor Villaraigosa calls for city employees to take up to 26 unpaid vacation days to help cope with Los Angeles' financial crisis.
Taxpayers will not be given a day off.
Exacerbating the crisis, the State government in Sacramento has begun seizing back billions of dollars paid out to local governments out of the tobacco companies' 'Rob Reiner' deal, to help forestall the state's own financial collapse, causing further financial strain for counties and municipalities.
