Labor/Employment,
Government
Jan. 11, 2018
Ruling may let employees kill part of pension reform law
A ruling could give California public employees the legal ammunition they need to shoot down a five year-old law that reduced their retirement benefits.
Justice Timothy Reardon of the 1st District Court of Appeal wrote a 72-page opinion that ruled, for the most part, in favor of county employees who challenged Gov. Jerry Brown's 2013 Public Employee Pension Reform Act.
A ruling could give California public employees the legal ammunition they need to shoot down a five year-old law that reduced their retirement benefits.
In a 72-page, published decision that gave a rundown of 71 years in public employee pension case law, a 1st District Court of Appeal panel found that decreasing the benefits of Merced, Contra Costa, and Alameda county employees might violate the California constitution.
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