Some say a Republican leadership plan to institute furloughs on the Legislature is misleading.

Under the deal, legislators will take 10 days of unpaid furloughs during the 2010 session.

But these are traditionally days — Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays — early in the session when many legislators aren’t working anyway. The practice in previous years, however, was to pay the legislators for those days even if they weren’t in Topeka.

Legislators are paid $88.66 per day and subsistence of $116 per day during the session.

“Furloughing for 10 days only cuts the days they shouldn’t have been paid in the first place,” said Jane Carter, executive director of the Kansas Organization of State Employees.

Some Democrats say they fear Republicans may use the furlough plan as a way to justify furloughs of state employees.