NEWS

The fight for furlough back pay is nearing a close for supervisors and managers in five departments that do not receive appropriations from the state's General Fund: the California Lottery, First 5 California Commission, Prison Industry Authority, Earthquake Authority, and Housing Finance Agency.

Your ACSS labor relations team reached out to the impacted departments and received replies from the First 5 California Commission and CALPIA.

In addition, the State Controller's Office released a letter further outlining the settlement.

First 5 stated:

• The settlement will include back pay for 55 days for employees who were employed for the entire period of FEB 2009 through OCT 2010, excluding JULY 2010.
• The back pay will not include interest.
• Back pay will be paid out to many past and present excluded employees, including managers, CEAs, and exempt personnel.
• No action is required on the part of current or past employees to receive the back pay.
• In order to receive full reimbursement of furlough back pay, employees must forfeit any banked furlough time.

CALPIA stated:

• The settlement will apply to all CALPIA furloughed employees, with the exception of employees represented by the Professional Engineers in California Government (PECG) and the California Association of Professional Scientists (CAPS), as both organizations continue to pursue their own furlough litigation.
• CALPIA has authorized pay and provided instructions to issue back pay to the SCO.

The SCO stated:

• The furlough settlement will be issued within 10 working days from the date SCO receives the completed Furlough Settlement Pay Template from your department.
• The furlough settlement will be issued as one lump sum reflecting the gross settlement amount.
• The settlement will have a unique payment type and pay suffix.
• The settlement will be subject to federal and state income tax using the flat tax method - 25% federal tax and 6% state tax - retirement, Social Security, Medicare, and SDI if applicable.
• The settlement will have applicable garnishment deductions withheld.

Read the full text of SCO's letter for more details.