Labor/Employment,
California Supreme Court
Mar. 5, 2019
State high court OKs Legislature rescinding employee benefit it once gave
The state Supreme Court ruled Monday that California’s rollback of certain state employees’ ability to purchase pension service time was constitutional, in a narrow decision that defers larger questions for later cases.
The state Supreme Court ruled Monday that California's rollback of certain state employees' ability to purchase pension service time was constitutional, in a narrow decision that defers larger questions for later cases.
The Legislature introduced the benefit lying at the center of the dispute, "airtime," in 2003. It allowed certain public employees to purchase up to five years of extra pension time. The California Public Employees' P...
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